I had earlier received elaborate instructions on the phone from my dad on how I was to get to Girgaum once I got off the bus at Dadar and backup information from my nervous Mum on what I should do in case I got lost.

The Bad Boy gets his Dad in hot water in every conceivable way, and plays jokes and pranks on everyone, from the Clown to the Manager, and from the Monkey to the Elephant. Rip-roaring, side-splitting fun from beginning to end.

Every day I had to be the first one to get at the mail, because if anyone else saw a letter to me from the Waterloo Ball Clubwell, that would have been enough to alert Dad to what was going on and I'd have been sunk.

I owe a lot to your dad for taking me in and keeping me.

"When I got home that night I had to tell my dad about it, because I was to leave for Indianapolis the very next day.

"I've helped my dad with his car," ventured Norma diffidently.

So leave at the door when the toiling is o'er All the burdens of worktime behind, And just be a dad to your girl or your lad A dad of the rollicking kind.

It was a hard thing for me to do, going against Dad like that.

Lord, but I hated to go back to dad after that.

He was about five feet five inches tall; he topped his Dad by a handspan.

" "I'd sure rather listen to my dad than any one," she replied, softly.

" "I'll tell Dad at dinner to-night that I've learned of a good chauffeur and have asked him to come in at eight this evening.

Um asked dat Linkinite ef him saw dad up Norf.

Relating the experiences of the Bad Boy and his Dad during their travels with a Circus.