HARD TIMES If many people went to the carnival they must have approached it from the other direction.

It was a small carnival and probably did not attract much interest outside of Berryville.

A few stragglers passed Mr.
Quig's farm traveling in buckboards and farm wagons, but they did not come from distant parts and evidently were not hungry.
Some were so unscrupulous as to bring their lunches with them.

One reckless farmer, indeed, bought a doughnut and exchanged it for another with a smaller hole.
Altogether the neighboring carnival did not bring much business to Pee-wee and Pepsy.

Aunt Jamsiah took their enterprise good-naturedly; Uncle Ebenezer said it was a good thing to keep the children out of mischief.