toby took the nuts offered and seated himself on a convient stone to eat them and at the same time to see all that was going on the coming of a circus to the little town of guilford was an event and toby had hardly thought of anything else since the highly colored posters had first been put up it was yet quite ealy in the morning and the tents were just being eracted by the men toby had followed with eager eyes everything that looked okay as if it belonged to the circus from the time the first wagon had entered the town until the street parade had been made and everything was being prepared for the afternoon performance which selection from this text an excerpt from toby tyler by james otis best demonstrates how his use of the third person limited point of view helps develop the idea of tobys passion for the circus