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 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?"