I am rather taken with this show business myself, and have always had a desire to appear on the stage.

As for Winn, and that other young monkey, Don Blossom--" "All right," laughed Winn.

"I'd rather take the part of monkey than of mule, any day." "Other young monkey," continued Billy Brackett, gravely, without noticing this interruption, "we'll hitch them together and exhibit them as Siamese twins.

Oh, I tell you, gentlemen, we'll give a show such as never was seen on this little old river.

I don't suppose this craft is as fast as some of the larger steamboats, but she can certainly overtake a raft, and we might just as well have some fun out of the trip as not." "But she is not a steamboat," confessed Cap'n Cod.
"Not a steamboat! What is she then, and how do you propel her ?" "She is only a mule-boat, and at present, as we have no mule, we merely drift with the current." At this Billy Brackett became thoughtful, and asked to be shown into the engine-room.