He'll do whatever you tell him."
"He certainly chases after the tramp in a funny way," laughed Lucile. "I
should think Mr. Treadwell would be afraid the dog would tear his coat."
"Oh, Splash only bites the old piece of cloth," said Mart. "It's a good
trick."
A little while after this Bunny saw Mart going out to the garage with
some ropes and straps under his arm. The garage was partly a barn, for
the Shetland pony was kept in it and some hay for Toby, the pony, to eat
was also stored in the same place.
"What are you going to do?" Bunny asked the boy acrobat.
"Practice a few of my new tricks that I'm going to do in the play," Mart
answered. "There's a new kind of back somersault I want to turn, and a
new kind of flipflop I want to make. You know in the play I do some
tricks in front of the stage barn to make the farmers laugh. I'm
supposed to be a boy who has run away from a circus."
"We knew a boy who really ran away from a circus once," said Bunny. "And
he was in our show when we had one down at grandpa's farm."
"Well, I'm going to do a few circus tricks, as well as I can, though I
never was in a tent show," said Mart.
"Please, may I come and watch you?" asked Bunny.
"Yes," answered Mart kindly.
So the acrobat and Bunny went out to the little barn, and there, with
ropes and straps, Mart made a trapeze, such as you have often seen on
the stage or in a circus.
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