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Title: Andy the Acrobat

Author: Peter T. Harkness

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ANDY THE ACROBAT

Or

Out With the Greatest Show on Earth

BY

PETER T. HARKNESS

Author of

CHIMPANZEE HUNTERS,
CIRCUSES--OLD AND NEW,
HOW A GREAT SHOW TRAVELS, ETC.

1907

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. EXPELLED

II. HOOP-LA!

III. DISASTER

IV. A BUSINESS PROPOSITION

V. THE CIRCUS

VI. CIRCUS TALK

VII. A WARM RECEPTION

VIII. "COASTING"

IX. GOOD-BYE TO FAIRVIEW

X. A FIRST APPEARANCE

XI. SAWDUST AND SPANGLES

XII. AN ARM OF THE LAW

XIII. ON THE ROAD

XIV. BILLY BLOW, CLOWN

XV. ANDY JOINS THE SHOW

XVI. THE REGISTERED MAIL

XVII. A WILD JOURNEY

XVIII. A FREAK OF NATURE

XIX. CALLED TO ACCOUNT

XX. ANDY'S ESCAPE

XXI. A FULL FLEDGED ACROBAT

XXII. AMONG THE CAGES

XXIII. FACING THE ENEMY

XXIV. ANDY'S AUNT

XXV. A BEAR ON THE RAMPAGE

XXVI. A CLEVER RUSE

XXVII. A ROYAL REWARD

XXVIII. "HEY, RUBE!"

XXIX. A FREE TROLLEY RIDE

XXX. WITH THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

XXXI. CONCLUSION

ANDY THE ACROBAT

CHAPTER I

EXPELLED

"Andrew Wildwood!"

The village schoolmaster of Fairview spoke this name in a tone of
severity. He accompanied the utterance with a bang of the ruler that
made the desk before him rattle.

There was fire in his eye and his lip trembled. Half of the twenty odd
scholars before him looked frightened, the others interested. None had
ever before seen the dull, sleepy pedagogue so wrought up.

All eyes were fixed on a lad of about sixteen, seated in the front row
of desks.

The name called out applied to him. It had been abbreviated so commonly,
however, that its full dignity seemed to daze him for the moment.

Andrew Wildwood slowly arose, his big, fearless eyes fixed dubiously on
the schoolmaste