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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 to his forehead in precise military salute.
"How's the storm coming, Bates?" demanded the showman, with an amused twinkle in his eyes as he noted the bedraggled condition of his messenger.
"She's coming wet, sir," was the comprehensive reply.
And indeed "she" was. The gale was roaring over the circus lot, momentarily threatening to wrench the billowing circus tents from their fastenings, lift them high in the air preparatory to distributing them over the surrounding country.