Sunday dinner.

September 27, Lisle.

Dinner is served between the shows in the circus, so on Sunday that means eating at four o'clock, before, in Patsy's case, rushing off to the office.
The custom comes from having to take down the cook house tent and clean the kitchen in time for taking down the tent after the second show. For those who don't have a private kitchen, like everyone on the crew, that means depending on the pie car, or home-made meals served by one of the families on the show, for an after-work snack at the end of the day. Josie used to do it, then Reyna when Josie was gone, but for a while now there hasn't been a pie car and the guys have to make do with gas station fare from, if they're lucky, around the corner.