"We'll take you to the circus, these boys and me, and let you see everything, if you want us to," with a diablerie of cunning so appalling and so convicting in its readiness he knew he must falter if he stopped to consider it.
"'Tain't as if we hadn't been before, every one of us," from Logan, with that yet greater cunning of the practiced and the artist, indifference; "but we wouldn't mind taking you."
"I been twice," from Wharton mightily.
"I been once, last year," from Albert Eddie.
"I been twice in one year," from John, "here at home and when I went to visit my grandmother."
"I been twice to one show," from Logan, eclipsing them all. "One day with one uncle, and the next day with another!"
And Emmy Lou never had been at all! The tickets, most cunning play of all, had been put back in her own hand.
"Old clown he threw his hat up, turned a handspring, and come up and caught it on his head," from Wharton. "We'll show you the clown."
"—rode one horse standing and driving five and kissed her hand every time she came by—" Logan, forgetting his cue and his cunning, was saying to Albert Eddie and John.
"—picks out the letters, that dog does, and spells his own name—" John, forgetting his cue and his cunning, was saying to Albert Eddie and Logan.