The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings
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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 the billboard there."
"Oh, pshaw! You only think you can. Besides, that‘s not a cartwheel; that‘s a double somersault. It‘s a real stunt, let me tell you. Why, I can do a cartwheel myself. But up in the air like that--well, I don‘t know. I guess not. I‘d be willing to try it, 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 figure straightening until the lad appeared fully half a head taller.
"More than anything else in the world," he breathed. "Would you?"
"Going to be," nodded Teddy decisively, as if the matter were already settled.
"Oh, you are, eh?"
"Uh-huh!"
"When?"
"I don‘t know. Someday
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