“You can easily tell ’em it’s meant for ten cents,” he remarked.
“And maybe it’s a good thing you did make that mistake,” said George. “When folks get a ten dollar ticket for ten cents they’ll think it’s a bargain!”
“That’s so,” agreed Bunny and his chums.
So they started out to sell tickets for the show, in which Patter was to play a principal part with Toby, the Shetland pony. But, somehow or other, the tickets did not sell very well. Many persons on whom the boys called with them laughed and said, kindly enough:
“Oh, I guess I don’t want any to-day. Come around some other time, boys.”
Finally, after many had refused to buy, the boys got together in Bunny’s barn to talk matters over.
“Something has got to be done,” said George seriously.
CHAPTER XIX
LOST DOG
Everyone had a different idea as to how the tickets could best be sold, and when there are half a dozen or more boys all talking at once it is hard to get anything straight. Besides Bunny and his three particular chums—George, Harry and Charlie—a number of other lads had been asked to help with the performance. They had also tried to sell tickets, but no one had had much luck.
Mr. Boardman took the two he had promised to buy, but if the boys wanted to make money from the show—and of course they did—twenty cents was not much.