“Four boys?”
“Yes, sir.”
“There aren’t any grown people back of the proposition, or in any way connected with it?” [[85]]
“No, sir.”
The mayor laughed in a sudden thought.
“You must be the ‘enterprising young showmen’ that I read about in the Tutter newspaper.”
“That’s us,” grinned Scoop.
“Did Stair send you over here to ‘toot your show horn at our canal door,’ as he put it in his newspaper article?”
“Mr. Stair has nothing to do with our show,” Scoop assured quickly.
There was a moment’s silence.