James Otis 
Mr. Stubbs’s Brother A Sequel to ‘Toby Tyler’ [EPUB ebook] 

THE SCHEME Why, we could start a circus jest as easy as a wink, Toby, ‘cause you know all about one an’ all you’d have to do would be to tell us fellers what to do, an’ we’d ‘tend to the rest. Yes; but you see we hain’t got a tent, or bosses, or wagons, or nothin’, an’ I don’t see how you could get a circus up that way; and the speaker hugged his knees as he rocked himself to and fro in a musing way on the rather sharp point of a large rock, on which he had seated himself in order to hear what his companions had to say that was so important. Will you come down with me to Bob Atwood’s, an’ see what he says about it? Yes, I’ll do that if you’ll come out afterwards for a game of I-spy ‘round the meetin’-house. All right; if we can find enough of the other fellers, I will.