Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Toby!

Toby Tyler!

Toby.

Where are ya?

Toby.

Toby Tyler.

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Stand back, please! Make way for elephants!

Make way for elephants! Look out there! This is dangerous!

Shtand back! Shtand back, please.

Make way for elephants!

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Here by the ferocious black leopard.

Here you are, ladies and gents. Get a cane! get a whip!

Here you are, son. Here's a balloon for you. Just a copper penny.

Balloons here. One penny. One copper penny. Balloons here.

Get your tickets for the main show! Hurry! Hurry!

My Balloon! I want my balloon!

Step right in and enjoy the show!

Hurry now! Step in and enjoy the show.

Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! Are you going in?

No, sir.

Step in and enjoy the show, gentlemen!

There you are, little lady.

And thank you, Madam, thank you very much.

All right, ladies and gentlemen. Step right up.

Here they are. Fresh roasted peanuts.

Peanuts, popcorn, candied apples and taffy...

Are all fresh and are all delicious.

All right, folks, step right up. Step right up here.

The peanuts are grown on the plantation...

and they're roasted right here on the premises.

Are you a looker or a buyer?

About how many peanuts would you say I could get for a penny?

Well, now, young sir, in the normal course of business,

I don't usually sell them by the penny.

Oh, well....

However, seeing as how you're a handsome young rooster with cash money in hand,

I devise I might part with say...

6 genuine plantation-grown Georgian goobers.

Six?

That's more than you get if you bought 'em by the bag,

and that's a solemn fact.

Here.

All right, folks, step right up here. Here it is.

It's all fresh and it's all refreshing. Nice and cold.

Nice and refreshing plantation peanuts.

Can you swap the ones back that are bad?

Bad? I don't vend bad peanut in my establishment, boy.

Maybe it's a little underbred,

perhaps timeworn. But not really bad.

Tastes bad.

Here's two more. Run along! You'll miss the best part of the show.

- Oh, I'm not goin'. - Not going?

Ah, you lack the price of a ticket.

Yes, sir.

I suppose your parents are bringing you tonight.

No, sir. I don't have any parents.

Orphan boy, eh? Well!

Have you ever thought of joining the circus, lad?

Me?

Imagine... being a part of the glorious confraternity of the big top,

that exalted company of artistes...

who travel the length and breadth of this great land of ours.

- How would you like that? - But what could I do?

You... could become...

a concessionaire.

I could?

- A con--? - Concessionaire.

R-R-Rolls out on the tongue mighty important, don't it, boy?

- Yes, sir. - Free transportation,

snug place to sleep, all you can eat, see the performance any time you please,

rub shoulders with the great and near-grace.

And as if that weren't enough, each and every Saturday night,

yours truly -- Harry Tupper...

will present you...

with one of these.

What do you say, lad? Is it a bargain?

I'd like that better than anything else in the whole world.

You would, eh?

The only trouble is, Uncle Daniel and Aunt Olive need me.

Aunt and uncle?

They're awful poor, and there's lots of work for me to do around the farm.

I understand. It does you credit, my boy.

I am a loyal man myself and I love to see it in others.

- Well, I could ask them. - Don't bother giving it another thought.

I'll just pick up a boy in the next town.

Plenty of them be glad for such a golden opportunity.

Yes, sir. Anyway, thank you.

Wait a minute. Come here.

Just so's you and I part the best of friends,

here's a free pass for tonight's performance.

- But Mr. Tup-- - Come, bring a friend and enjoy yourself.

Courtesy of your truly, Harry Tupper.

- Mr. Tupper-- - Farewell, lad. Ice-cold lemonade.

It's pink, it's cold, it's refreshing!

Here we are! Ice-cold lemonade! It's pink, it's cold, it's refreshing!

Here you are! Ice-cold lemonade!

Hey, Red! Red! Look at what I got here!

Look, Red!

Guess what is this?

A genuine free pass to the circus. Look!

Yahoo!

Where have you been?

I said, "Where have you been?"

Answer me!

Oh, I'm sorry, Uncle Daniel.

I meant to come right back, but there was a parade.

And then I happened to go by the circus grounds,

and a man gave me free pass.

- Look. - Circus?

Did you know the hogs broke the fence down, because...

you didn't feed 'em, and rooted up the turnip field, did you? Did you?

Toby, we counted on selling that crop.

You know how we need money in the house.

- You're a shiftless, ungrateful boy. - Daniel, don't be hard on him.

Boys get skittish when a circus comes to town.

He don't have a right to behave like other boys.

He's got no rights at all.

- And he knows why. - Don't say that to him.

I'm a poor man, yet I took you in out of decency's sake...

- when no one else would have you! - Daniel.

I don't see why we didn't send you to the county home in the first place.

You're no kin to us. You're nothin' to us.

Nothin' but a-- A millstone around our necks.

You don't mean that, Daniel.

Now you just go up to bed and stay there!

There'll be no place at supper for you.

Those were cruel things to say.

Get on with the supper, Olive.

Gangway there. Horses comin' through.

All right, move those fingers out of the way!

Guy out over here!

Tim, guy out! Over here!

Mr. Tupper?

Mr. Tupper.

- Here I am, Mr. Tupper. - Well, what of it?

Don't you remember me, Mr. Tupper?

- You said I could work for you. - So?

So I'm ready. All right, move it, move it!

What about that aunt and uncle?

Well, it's all right. They don't want me.

They said I was a millstone around the necks.

All right. You got the job.

- Fifty cents a week. - But today you said it's a dollar.

If Harry Tupper said a dollar, he meant a dollar,

but don't let me catch you runnin' away...

once I spend the time to teach you the business.

- It takes a lot out of me, boy. - No, sir.

Gentlemen's agreement.

It's one of the most solemn things there is. Understand?

- Yes, sir. - All right, now you stay here and stay out of trouble.

I'll be right back.

- Mr. Tupper? - Yes?

- I'm hungry. - So?

I didn't have anything to eat for supper.

All right.

Throw a blanket over the cage!

There you are, my boy. Nutritional gold from the Indies.

- See that it lasts you till the norming. - Yes, sir.

Give us a hand here, will you, Olie?

Olie!

Chuck wagon's ready! Come on! Pull that back here, now!

Bring your horses! Get some of this stuff back in there!

Steady. Steady! Steady!

All right, clear that ball groove.

Clear that ball groove!

Hey!

What are you doin'?

- - Give that back, you thief!

Here. What's going on? What did you do to that chimp?

Me? I didn't do a thing. He stole my banana.

All right, troublemaker, settle down!

Now, as for you. You better get home.

I thought I told you to stay out of troubles.

He stole my banana.

- What's wrong here? - Uh, N-N- Nothing, Colonel. N-N-Nothing at all, sir.

The chimp just got a little bit excited.

- Who's this? - Th-This is my new helper, Sir.

- Picking them kind of small, aren't you? - Well, sir....

He has no folks, the poor lad.

I thought I might take him under my wing...

and kind of give him a helping hand.

Spare me your kind intentions, Tupper.

Let's get these wagons moving. The boy can ride up top with Ben.

Thunderation, Colonel.

Why pick me to wet-nurse Tupper's sniveling brats?

Trim your wagon, Ben. We're moving.

Ollie, get these side boards up!

- Mr. Tupper? - Hmm? Oh.

- I kind of change my mind. - Oh, now, lad.

Now listen. D-Don't you worry none about our rough ways?

No, sir. We don't mean a thing by it, not a blessed thing.

No. Now, here, look.

Look what Mr. Tupper has here for you.

There's a bag for you... of peppermint jaws. Uh-huh.

And that should last you till morning.

All right now, lad. Right up this ladder here.

Let me get that for you. You're gonna be snug as a mouse up there.