He is
going outside of his class. He is, as you might say, no more than
an innocent bystander. Whereas I am a qualified authority.
I will admit that at one stage of my life, I regarded fleshiness
as a desirable asset. The incident came about in this way. There
was a circus showing in our town and a number of us proposed to
attend it. It was one of those one-ring, ten-cent circuses that
used to go about over the country, and it is my present recollection
that all of us had funds laid by sufficient to buy tickets; but
if we could procure admission in the regular way we felt it would
be a sinful waste of money to pay our way in.
With this idea in mind we went scouting round back of the main tent
to a comparatively secluded spot, and there we found a place where
the canvas side-wall lifted clear of the earth for a matter of four
or five inches. We held an informal caucus to decide who should
should go first. The honor lay between two of us--between the
present writer, who was reasonably skinny, and another boy, named
Thompson, who was even skinnier.
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