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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