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to have any pet suffer for water to drink, especially in summer. So if
you keep pets of any kind, don't feed them too much, but give them plenty
of water. They never can take too much of this.

"When you going to have your circus?" asked Jimmy of Teddy, when the
animals had quieted down, eating the pieces of buns.

"Oh, pretty soon, I guess. Janet and I are going to teach them a lot of
new tricks."

"I wish I could help," said Jimmy.

"You can," Teddy promised. "Jan and I will need someone to help us with
the circus. I'm going to ask Jack Turton and Harry Kent, too. Jack is so
funny and fat he'll make a good clown."

"I'd rather be one of the animal trainers," said Jimmy.

"That's what you and I'll be--animal trainers," decided Teddy. "My sister
Jan's good with animals, too. She isn't afraid of even a snake."

"That's good," decided Jimmy. "Maybe we could get some snakes to have in
the circus--little ones, you know."

"It would be fine!" exclaimed Teddy. "But where can we get any?"

"Oh, in the woods, I guess. I'll see if I can find any. But I've got to
go home now."

"All right. Come over to-morrow and we'll start training the animals,"
replied Teddy.

And the next day Teddy, Janet and Jimmy began to teach the pets some new
tricks. I will tell you about them when the time comes. It was not easy
work, and more than once the Curlytops and their friend were discouraged.
For just when they thought they had Top and Skyrocket so they would do a
trick together, one or the other of the dogs would run away, wagging his
tail, however, in friendly fashion, to show there were no hard feelings.

The cats were the hardest to teach. Snuff did very well with his ball
rolling trick and one or two others, and Turnover would turn in a sort of
side-somersault whenever told to do so by Janet. But to teach the two
cats to do tricks together was much harder.

It was this--the tricks they could do together--that made Tip and Top
such a valuable team of dogs.

"Do you think you'll ever get Tip back?" asked Jimmy, as he, with the
Curlytops, was resting one day after putting the pets through some of
their tricks.

"We keep hoping so," said Janet.

"But it doesn't look so now," added her brother. "He's been gone so long,
and not even the police can find him. They can't find Shorty, either. I
guess Shorty and Tip ran a way together."

"And maybe Shorty has Tip in a circus, making him do tricks," added
Janet.

"Maybe," agr