"Oh, I know it. It's a good act, Joe."
"Then give me more money! I've just got to have it!"
CHAPTER XIII
ILL FEELING
The ring-master looked critically at the boy fish, but Joe returned the gaze steadily. He seemed very much in earnest.
"Say, Joe," asked Jim Tracy teasingly, "you're not going to get married, are you, that you want more money?"
Joe blushed and answered:
"No, not just yet, though I suppose you do pay the married men more than the single ones."
"Yes, that's the general custom. But if we practically doubled your salary, Joe, you'd be getting more than some of the married men."
"Well, I'm doing a double turn, Mr. Tracy. You've got to think of that."