This last announcement excited Josiah for the moment so that he lost all interest in the novel sights around him.
He had heard of the theatre; for Sam Perry knew a boy living about seven miles from Berry’s Corner who had really been inside such a place, and Josiah was willing to confess that no other form of entertainment could afford him so many pleasurable anticipations.
The sight-seeing, and the promise of the delightful excitement which was yet to come, did not prevent Josiah from remembering the first friend he had made in the city, and he asked anxiously:—
“Is Sadie goin’ with us?”
“Of course not. We don’t want a girl taggin’ ’round, an’ I reckon she wouldn’t care to go very much.”
“Oh, yes she would, ’cause she thought it was awful nice at the circus.”
“Circus!” Bob repeated in surprise. “Where have you seen one?”
“She an’ I went the evenin’ I was tryin’ to find you. It’s down a little ways from where she sells matches.”
“Oh, that’s the dime museum, an’ don’t ’mount to much longside of one up on the Bowery. We can go to them kind of places any day;” and Master Green spoke as if half the marvels of the earth were gathered at this particular place, but yet were hardly worth the attention of himself and his friends.
“But I’d like to see her again. She was mighty good to me.”