Show PUTTING IT UP TO BILLIE logical reason why he should be the one to ask favor the wagons of the greatest show on earth passed up the avenue at daybreak their incessant rumble soon awakened ten year old billie and his five year old brother robert their mother feigned sleep as the two white robed figures crept past her bed into the hall on the way to investigate kobert struggled manfully with the unaccustomed task of putting on his clothes walt for me billie his mother heard him beg get ahead of me get mother to help you counseled billie who was having troubles of his own mother started to the rescue and then paused as she heard the voice of her younger guarded but anxious and insistent you ask her billie you known her longer than I 1 have everybody s magazine |