文档介绍：The Circus Boys Across The Continent (Or Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark)
The Circus Boys Across
The Continent
(Or Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark)
Edgar B. P. Darlington
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The Circus Boys Across The Continent (Or Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark)
CHAPTER I
THE BOYS HEAR GOOD NEWS
"You never can guess it--you never can guess the news, Teddy," cried
Phil Forrest, rushing into the gymnasium, his face flushed with
excitement.
Teddy Tucker, clad in a pair of linen working trunks and a ragged,
sleeveless shirt, both garments much the worse for their winter's wear, was
lazily swinging a pair of Indian clubs.
"What is it, some kind of riddle, Phil?" he questioned, bringing the
clubs down to his sides.
"Do be serious for a minute, won't you?"
"Me, serious? Why, I never cracked a smile. Isn't anything to smile
at. Besides, do you know, since I've been in the circus business, every
time I want to laugh I check myself so suddenly that it hurts?"
"How's that?"
"Because I think I've still got my makeup on and that I'll crack it if I
laugh."
"What, your face?"
"My face? No! My makeup. By the time I remember that I
haven't any makeup on I've usually forgotten what it was I wanted to laugh
about. Then I don't laugh."
Teddy shied an Indian club at a rat that was scurrying across the far
end of their gymnasium, missing him by half the width of the building.
"If you don't care, of course I shan't tell you. But it's good news,
Teddy. You would say so if you knew it."
"What news? Haven't heard anything that sounds like news," his
eyes fixed on the hole into which the rat had disappeared.
"You can't guess where we are going this summer?"
"Going? Don't have to guess. I know," answered the lad with an
emphasizing nod.
"Where do you think?"
"We're going out with the Great bined Shows, of course.
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The Circus Boys Across The Continent (Or Winning New Laurels on the Tanbark)
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