Phil saw him a moment later.
"I'm in for a scolding," he muttered. "Wonder what it is all
about this time. I don't seem able to do a thing to please Uncle
Abner."
CHAPTER II
PHIL HEARS HIS DISMISSAL
"Where you been, young man?" The question was a snarl rather
than a sentence.
"To school, Uncle, of course."
"School's been out more than an hour. I say, where have you
been?"
"I stopped on the way for a few minutes."
"You did?" exploded Abner Adams. "Where?"
"Teddy Tucker and I stopped to read a circus bill over there on
Clover Street. We did not stop but a few minutes. Was there any
harm in that?"
"Harm? Circus bill--"
"And I want to go to the circus, too, Uncle, when it comes here.
You know? I have not been to anything of that sort since mother
died--not once. I'll work and earn the money. I can go in the
evening after my work is finished. Please let me go, Uncle."
For a full minute Abner Adams was too overcome with his emotions
to speak. He hobbled about in a circle, smiting the ground with
his cane, alternately brandishing it threateningly in the air
over the head of the unflinching Phil.
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