Part 7 (2/2)

”Nohat's that fool boy going to do?” wondered Mr Sparling

All at once Phil Forrest threw hi like a ball as he did so

One--two--three times he whirled about in his o your tuck!” corip of his hands which were holding his legs doubled close against his body

The lad quickly straightened up, spreading his arms to steady hi feet first, due to his instant obedience of the ringmaster's order

Perhaps that alone saved the Circus Boy fro his neck, for so dizzy was he that he was unable to tell whether he was dropping feet or head first

He alighted on his feet and the ringht hiet your bearings, Phil”

Phil needed thattop seean direeted his really wonderful performance

”Can you stand alone now?”

”I think so,” careat uproar

But the lad wavered a little after the ring himself quickly, Phil pulled on his slippers and walked slowly fro, dizzy, but happy with the shouts of his school fellows ringing in his ears

He heard the voice of Mr Sparling close by hireat, !”

Phil tripped proudly past the grandstand seats, where the boys were howling like a pack of wild Indians

But just then so else occurred to attract their attention

A donkey, long-eared, long-haired, dirty and unke and spun about like a top for a fullbeast's back sat a boy in the makeup of a blackface clown In his mouth was a har to the rear with his back toward the donkey's head

At thathead first, as any self-respecting donkey is supposed to do, this particular donkey alking backwards Yes, he was galloping backwards

The instant the audience noted that, their cheers changed to howls of delight The cloas Teddy Tucker, and the donkey was the surprise he had been storing up for this very occasion

While the audience laughed and jeered, Mr Sparling looked on in surprise not un he had been looking for, but had been unable thus far to find

”It's a winner!” he cried, as Teddy Tucker and his strange ait such as never had been seen in a sawdust arena before

Right around the arena traveled boy and donkey When opposite the grandstand seats, where the high school students were sitting, Teddy nearly drove the out the class colors which he had been hiding under his coat