clapped their hands, for he was glad he had pleased them. Faster and
faster went the racing dogs, and Mappo and Prince won.

Then came the jumping through the paper hoops, first from the backs of
dogs, and, afterward backs of the ponies. In all of these tricks
Mappo did very well.

[Illustration: He rode around a little wooden platform on the bicycle,
holding a flag over his shoulder. (Page 99)]

Then Mappo did his other tricks--turning somersaults, standing on his
head, and even riding a little bicycle the man had made for him. That
was Mappo's best trick, and one that ended his part of the circus. He
rode around a little wooden platform on the bicycle, holding a flag over
his shoulder, and my! how the children did laugh at that.

Mappo did not see all the circus. As soon as his act was over, he was
taken back to his cage, but he was not chained up. His keeper knew he
could trust Mappo not to run away.

Mappo wandered around the animal tent. After a while he came to where
the tiger's cage stood.

"Ah ha! There you are!" snarled Sharp-Tooth, the striped tiger, as he
saw Mappo. "You're the monkey who is to blame for my being here."

"I to blame! How?" asked Mappo.

"Yes, you are to blame," went on Sharp-Tooth. "You wouldn't open my
cage, and let me out when we were in the jungle. Never mind! I'll fix
you! When I get out of here--and some day I'm going to break loose--when
I get out of here, I'll bite you."

"Oh dear!" thought Mappo. "I hope that never happens!" and he went off
to talk to Tum Tum, the jolly elephant.

For nearly a week the circus traveled from town to town, Mappo doing his
tricks very well indeed. Once again Sharp-Tooth, the tiger, said to the
monkey chap:

"Oh, wait until I get hold of you. I was nearly out of my cage last
night. To-night I'll be out for sure, and then I'll fix you!"

Poor Mappo was frightened. The more he thought of the tiger getting
loose and biting him, the more frightened he became. And that day, as
Mappo was riding along in his own cage in the circus wagon, he thought
he heard the tiger getting loose from the big cage.

"Oh, he'll get me, sure!" cried Mappo. He looked up. The door of his
cage was open the least little bit. Mappo pulled it open wider with his
paws, and then, when none of the circus men was looking, Mappo slipped
out, and dropped down to the road.

The door of his cage snapped shut after Mappo got out, keeping the other
monkeys in.

"I'm going to r