k you. I am doing my best.
You always do. Whatever you attempt you go at with all the force
you possessand that is no slight factoreither. I have been waiting to
talk seriously with you for sometime. You have finished your studies
have you not?
Yes.
What are your plans for the future?
I have no immediate plans beyond continuing in the show business.
I am trying to lay up some money so I can go into business some of
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these days.
What business?
Circus businessof course. It is the only business I know anything
aboutand I know very little about thatit seems to me.
Let me tell you somethingPhil. Nine-tenths of the men who have
been in it nearly all their lives know no more about the circus business
than you do. Many of them not so much. You are a born showman.
Take my word for ityou have a very brilliant career before you. You
spokesometime agoabout wishing to go to college.
I should like to go.
Under the circumstances I would advise against itthough I am a
thorough believer in the value of an education. You have a good start
now. Were you to go to college you would spend four years there and
when you finishedyou would find that the show world
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