nothing of the
community's talent. Surely I am not a church entertainer; my dances
and songs won't fit into a church entertainment. You can't preach or
exhort, can you Landy?" asked Davy anxiously. "We've just got to have
that horse. I will agree to go over to Adot and stand on my head, in
some show-window if that gets him. But you wouldn't want to sponsor
that kind of entertainment," the little man appealed to Adine. "What's
needed is something half-way refined and where the patron would get
his money's worth. And I can't produce that kind of a show."

"Oh, yes, you can," said Adine smiling, "and the patron would get his
money's worth. Why you, yourself know that little people--or what
shall I call them?"

"Midgets," interposed Davy, "midgets is our classification, not
dwarfs, nor gnomes, nor half-pints, just midgets."

"Thanks, that helps, and you see how little I know about it and how
anxious I am to learn. Well, midgets, as a class are attractive and a
rarity too. Except for yourself, I do not know of another. People want
to see them. They go to circuses and theaters just to see little
people. I have no doubt, that in many cases, people are
ill-mannered--stare and giggle--and say uncalled for things, but
that's to be expected from the run of persons, yet the fact remains,
midgets are attractive.

"Now you've been before the public, know how to handle crowds and know
what they want. You could supplement your appearance with a lecture or
talk on midgets, your experience with them, and something of your
travels with the circus and with the troopers of the theater. Why,
it's just what the public wants."

"That little hoss is sold," said Landy exultantly. "One speech fer one
hoss. Fair enough!"

"Now you hold on, Landy," Davy interrupted. "You are getting me out in
deep water and no oars. I am a good Presbyterian all right, but they
wouldn't stand for my stuff in their church and these Nazarenes surely
have the same standards of propriety. Now, Miss Adine, let me give you
fifty or a hundred dollars for this colt and you give that to these
needy Christians."

"And leave me out as a promoter! Not much! Why, I want to see this
show myself. I wouldn't miss it for anything."

"Ner me," cried Landy in much glee. "Why me en Potter en Flinthead en
Hickory and some of the boys from the Diamond-A, will git us front
seats and cheer yer ev'ry utt'rance. Come to think of hit, we could
hold a big afternoon parade, with a l