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TITLE: THE CIRCUS BOYS ON THE PLAINS
AUTHOR: EDGAR B. P. DARLINGTON
EBOOK: E00019 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

The Circus Boys on the Plains
Or
The Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show

By EDGAR B. P. DARLINGTON

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I--ON THE OWNER'S PRIVATE CAR

The English Fat Girl gets mired on the lot.  Teddy Tucker
threatens to thrash the "Strongest Man on Earth."  The hazards of
a circus life.  Teddy would put the whole show out of business.
Phil and his chum assigned to Advance Car Number Three.

CHAPTER II--OFF FOR NEW FIELDS

"Boss Sparling seems in an awful hurry to get rid of us."
Circus Boys meet a cold reception.  Phil is made a
"barn climber."  Teddy threatens to wring the car manager's neck.
"Soak him, Phil!" yells the boy on the pile of railroad ties.

CHAPTER III--COMING TO AN UNDERSTANDING

Phil gets into action.  "I've had enough!" groans the
car manager.  A telegram to the owner complains of the
Circus Boys.  "Either you get off this car or I do."  The advance
car is a bedlam.  More trouble for the Circus Boys is in sight.

CHAPTER IV-INTRODUCED TO THE CREW

Circus Boys meet "Rosie the Pig" and other notables.  The porter
tells how Phil worsted Mr. Snowden.  What a "contract hotel" is.
Teddy decides to take bean soup.  "Why didn't the contracting
agent sign us up with a livery stable?"

CHAPTER V--THE MIDNIGHT ALARM

How an advance car is operated.  The "banner man" and his little
magnetic hammer.  "You're a bird on the trapeze."  The boys
exchange confidences on snoring.  Circus Boys go to sleep on
beds of paper.  Aroused by a great uproar.

CHAPTER VI--ALMOST A TRAGEDY

"He's fallen into the paste can headfirst!"  Teddy Tucker has
a narrow escape from death.  The manager gives Phil a ducking.
"Rain-in-the-Face" sees a great light.  An irate car manager.
How Teddy took his revenge on Mr. Snowden.

CHAPTER VII--THE FIRST DAY'S EXPERIENCE

"He pulled me out of bed!"  Great excitement on Car Three.
Snowden hopes Phil will fall off and break his neck.
Young Forrest pastes a poster on himself.  "Young man,
you have a cast-iron nerve!"  The Circus Boy "squares"
a hard-shell farmer.

CHAPTER VIII--THE CIRCUS BOY WINS

Phil gets a silo, and a hog pen for good measure.
Farmers witness a circus stunt not down on the bills.
A narrow escape.  Taking a desperate chance.  Phil "the champeen
of them all."  Circus sheets that stood out like a fire on
the landscape.

CHAPTER IX--TEDDY GETS INTO TROUBLE

Blue jeans replace pink tights.  When it rained paste.  "I didn't
know you had your nose stuck in the paste pot when I turned on
the steam."  Teddy sets himself the task of reforming a
"crazy man."  The trouble maker is named "Spotted Horse."
"You're discharged!"

CHAPTER X--A SURPRISE, INDEED!

Billy Conley is up to tricks.  Mr. Sparling takes a hand.
The car manager gets his deserts.  "You will hear great
things of Phil Forrest one of these days."  "I'm going to
thrash a man within an inch of his life!"  Phil hears an
amazing thing.

CHAPTER XI--THREE CHEERS AND A TIGER

Phil Forrest, Car Manager.  Dazed by an unexpected promotion.
Teddy graduates from the paste pot.  How circus money is spent.
The Circus Boys win new laurels.  Teddy becomes a press agent.
Phil makes a speech and is welcomed as "The Boss."

CHAPTER XII--FACING AN EMERGENCY

"Bad habit to go to bed on an empty stomach."  Teddy Tucker
discovers a rival on a side track.  "Here's trouble right from
the start!"  The new car manager gets into rapid-fire action.
"We must beat the 'opposition.'  Now, boys, it's up to you!"
The mine is laid.

CHAPTER XIII--A BAFFLED CAR MANAGER

"That fellow is playing a sharp trick."  Phil breakfasts with his
rival and extracts information from him.  "You ain't half as big
a fool as you look, are you?"  Bob Tripp gets a great shock.
Farmers guard Phil Forrest's posters with shot guns.

CHAPTER XIV--TEDDY WRITES A LETTER

Circus Boys steal a second march on the "opposition."
Teddy Tucker whoops for joy.  The new press agent begins work.
"Spotted Horse" has too many fingers for typing.  A suggestion
for billposters.  Circus Boys strike hard blows.

CHAPTER XV--IN AN EXCITING RACE

All surrounded in Kansas.  Three "opposition" cars
discovered in the same yard with Phil Forrest.  A race for
the country.  Paste cans dance a jig.  Rivals turned over
into a ditch.  A case of give and take.

CHAPTER XVI--A BATTLE OF WITS

When money made a big noise.  The canary car manager gets an
awful jolt.  "Be on your way, my little man," urges Phil sweetly.
"Turn out every man in town!  Run as if the Rhino of the Sparling
Circus were after you!"

CHAPTER XVII--THE CHARGE OF THE PASTE BRIGADE

The battle is on in earnest.  Trouble is on the air.
"Paste them, fellows!" howls Teddy.  "Look out!  The police
are coming!"  "I arrest you for disturbing the peace!"
Phil faces the officers of the law boldly and wins for his show.

CHAPTER XVIII--THE MISSING SHOW CARS

Congratulations from the show's owner.  Four rival advance cars
go out on one train.  Teddy sends the enemy's cars adrift.
Sleeping a sleep of innocence.  Phil is puzzled over the mystery
of the missing cars.  Teddy's expression arouses the suspicion of
his chum.

CHAPTER XIX--PHIL'S DARING PLAN

Teddy Tucker admits his guilt.  Forrest reads "Spotted Horse"
a severe lecture.  "Is the sermon over?"  A lesson that bore
fruit for a day or so.  Pat "smells a rat."  "She's moving!
We're off!"  The Circus Boys adrift on a runaway car.

CHAPTER XX--ON A WILDCAT RUN

A dizzy ride through the storm.  "Don't bother me, I'm making
the next town!"  A thrilling moment.  Phil faces death with a
smile on his face.  "Hold fast, we're going to sideswipe them!"
The agent at Salina gets a surprise.

CHAPTER XXI--IN A PERILOUS POSITION

Teddy throws out his chest and seeks publicity.  "Spotted Horse"
has a daring plan.  The Circus Boy a hundred feet in the air.
Teddy takes a desperate chance to earn Phil Forrest's fifty.
Overtaken by disaster as the Sparling banner floats to
the breeze.

CHAPTER XXII--A DASH FOR LIBERTY

"Help!  I'm hung up!"  Teddy is suspended, head downward, between
earth and sky.  Phil hurries to the rescue.  "I'm all tied up in
a knot!" wails the unhappy Tucker.  Teddy takes a long drop,
landing on Billy's neck, and bowls over a policeman.

CHAPTER XXIII--THE DESERTED VILLAGE

A new trouble-plan in the making.  Teddy is so happy that he
can't go to bed.  The "opposition" is lost again.  Phil makes
his chum tell how he tricked the rival car managers.  How Phil
Forrest proved that he was a real manager.

CHAPTER XXIV--CONCLUSION

The manager of "The Greatest Show on Earth" wants Phil.
Setting out to "drive the other fellows off the map."  "No more
meals at the Sign of the Tin Spoon."  Circus Boys have a happy
windup to an exciting show season.

THE CIRCUS BOYS ON THE PLAINS

CHAPTER I

ON THE OWNER'S PRIVATE CAR

"Bates!"

The voice of James Sparling rose above even the roar of
the storm.

A uniformed attendant stepped into the little office tent
occupied by the owner of the Great Sparling Combined Shows.
Shaking the water from his dripping cap, he brought a hand

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