文档介绍：The Circus Boys On the Mississippi
The Circus Boys On the
Mississippi
(Or Afloat with the Big Show on the Big River)
EDGAR B. P. DARLINGTON
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The Circus Boys On the Mississippi
CHAPTER I
MAKING A LIVELY START
"Have you had any trouble with Diaz, Teddy?"
"Who's he?"
"The new Spanish clown."
"Oh!"
Teddy Tucker's face grew serious.
"What about him, Phil?"
"That is what I am asking you. Have you had any misunderstanding-
-angry words or anything of the sort with him?" persisted Phil Forrest,
with a keen, inquiring glance into the face of panion.
"Well, maybe," admitted the Circus Boy, with evident reluctance.
"What made you think I had?"
"From the way he looked at you when you were standing in the
paddock this afternoon, waiting for your cue to go on."
"Huh! How did he look at me?"
"As if he had a grudge against you. There was an expression in his
eyes that said more plainly than words, 'I'll get even with you yet, young
man, you see if I do not.'"
"Wonderful!" breathed Teddy.
"What do you mean?"
"You must be a mind reader, Phil Forrest," grumbled Teddy, digging
his heel into the soft turf of the circus lot. "Can you read my mind? If
you can, what am I thinking about now?"
"You are thinking," answered Phil slowly, "that you will make me
forget the question I asked you just now. You are thinking you would
rather not answer my question."
Teddy opened his eyes a little wider.
"You ought to go into the business."
"What business?"
"Reading people's minds, at so much per read."
"Thank you."
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"I wish you'd read the mind of that donkey of mine, and find out what
he's got up his sleeve, or rather his hoofs, for me this evening."
"Do you know of what else you are thinking?"
"Of course I do. Think I don't know what I am thinking about?
Well! What am I thinking about?"
"At the present moment you are thinking that you will do to Diaz what
he hopes to do to you some of th