The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings

CHAPTER I.
THE LURE OF THE CIRCUS

“I say, Phil, I can do that.”

“Do what, Teddy?”

“A cartwheel in the air like that fellow is doing in the picture on thebillboard there.”

“Oh, pshaw! You only think you can. Besides, that’s not acartwheel; that’s a double somersault. It’s a real stunt, let metell you. Why, I can do a cartwheel myself. But up in the air likethat—well, I don’t know. I guess not. I’d be willing to tryit, though, if I had something below to catch me,” added the lad,critically surveying the figures on the poster before them.

“How’d you like to be a circus man, Phil?”

Phil’s dark eyes glowed with a new light, his slender figurestraightening until the lad appeared fully half a head taller.

“More than anything else in the world,” he breathed. “Wouldyou?”

“Going to be,” nodded Teddy decisively, as if the matter werealready settled.

“Oh, you are, eh?”

“Uh-huh!”

“When?”

“I don’t know. Someday—someday when I get old enough,maybe.”

Phil Forrest surveyed his companion with a half critical smile on his face.

“What are you going to do—be a trapeze performer or what?”

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