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第40章

TEDDY TAXES A DROP

"Throw him a rope!" shouted someone."Yes, give him a rope," urged Mr.Sparling.

"No one can throw a rope that high," answered Phil."I think the first thing to be done is to get the monkeys and I have a plan by which to accomplish it.""What's your plan?"

"Have their cage brought in.We should have thought of that before." "That's a good idea," nodded Mr.Sparling."I always have said you had more head than any of the others of this outfit, not excepting myself.

Get the monkey cage in here."

While this was being done Phil hurried out into the menagerie tent, where, at a snack stand, he filled his pockets with peanuts and candy; then strolled back, awaiting the arrival of the cage.

"We shall be able to capture our monkeys much more easily if the audience will please leave the tent," announced Mr.Sparling."The show is over.There will be nothing more to see."The spectators thought differently.There was considerable to be seen yet.No one made a move to leave, and the manager gave up trying to make them, not caring to attempt driving the people out by force.

The cage finally was drawn up between the two rings.This instantly attracted the attention of the little beasts.Phil stood off from the cage a few feet.

"Now everybody keep away, so the monkeys can see me," he directed.Phil then began chirping in a peculiar way, giving a very good imitation of the monkey call for food.At the same time he began slowly tossing candy and peanuts into the cage.

There was instant commotion aloft.Such a chattering and scurrying occurred up there as to cause the spectators to gaze in open-mouthed wonder.But still Phil kept up his weird chirping, continuing to toss peanuts and candy into the cage.

"As I live, they are coming down," breathed Mr.Sparling inamazement, "never saw anything like it in my life!""I always told you that boy should have been a menagerie man instead of a ring performer," nodded Mr.Kennedy, the elephant trainer.

"He is everything at the same time," answered Mr.Sparling."It is a question as to whether or not he does one thing better than another.There they come.Everybody stand back.I hope the people keep quiet until he gets through there.I am afraid the monkeys never will go back into the cage, though."There was no hesitancy on the part of the monkeys.They began leaping from rope to rope, swinging by their tails to facilitate their descent, until finally the whole troop leaped to the top of the cage and swung themselves down the bars to the ground.

Phil lowered his voice to a low, insistent chirp.One monkey leaped into the cage, the others following as fast as they could stretch up their hands and grab the tail board of the wagon.Instantly they began scrambling for the nuts and candies that lay strewn over the floor.

The last one was inside.Phil sprang to the rear of the cage and slammed the door shut, throwing the padlock in place and snapping it.

"There are your old monkeys," he cried, turning to Mr.Sparling with flushed, triumphant face.

The audience broke out into a roar, shouting, howling and stamping on the seats at the same time.

"Now, you may go," shouted Mr.Sparling to the audience."Phil, you are a wonder.I take off my hat to you," and the showman, suiting the action to the word, made a sweeping bow to the little Circus Boy.

Still the audience remained."Well, why don't you go?""What about the kid up there near the top of the house?" questioned a voice in the audience.

"That's so.I had forgotten all about him," admitted the owner of the show.

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