The big show that Dooley and Cousin Billy Clyde had put together in front of Pete's store porch would have been a total failure had it not been for the big rat. Not a single person had bought a ticket to see it, and few of the loafers on the porch had even seemed to listen to Dooley as he sang out the attraction in his best imitation of a carnival side show barker. A few of them had laughed and seemed mildly interested when he invited them to watch the amazing one headed calf in the box do the hoochie koochie... Someone had told Dooley to “break a leg.” just before the show started.