ong the children.

"Well, I was wishing I was somewhere else," said Janet. "Oh, but I was
scared!"

"I was at first, but I knew I had to tell my mother or my father,"
remarked Teddy. "So I got out of bed."

"Teddy was brave," declared Janet.

"Oh, that wasn't anything," the little Curlytop boy said modestly. "I
wasn't as brave as Mr. Nip. He called the burglars names!"

"Everybody will be glad to come to the circus to see him," said Harry
Kent, who was going to help with the show.

"We'll put Mr. Nip in a special cage, and put a sign on so people will
know he's the parrot that scared the burglars," suggested fat Jackie
Turton.

In fact, Mr. Nip became quite celebrated. For there was an account in the
newspaper of the attempted burglary at the Martin house, and the part the
parrot had played was well told, so that all over Cresco Mr. Nip was
talked about.

"It's a good advertisement for our circus, isn't it, Daddy?" asked Teddy,
for the paper mentioned that the Curlytops had a number of pets they were
getting ready to place on exhibition in a show.

"Yes," said Mr. Martin, "it is."

"What are you going to do with the money you get from your circus--if you
get any?" asked Mrs. Martin of the Curlytops one day about a week after
the burglars had gotten in. By this time Mr. Nip was quite well again,
and could go back to the barn to be with the monkey, the alligator and
the white mice and the rats.

"Oh, we'll get _some_ money," declared Teddy. "But I don't know what
we'll do with it. Maybe we'll buy more pets."

"Oh, I hope not!" laughed his mother. "You have enough now."

As the days passed the Curlytops and their friends worked with Uncle
Toby's animals, teaching them several new tricks. More than once Teddy
and Janet wished they had Tip, the missing dog, as he had performed so
well with Top. But no word had come about him, and it was felt he was
gone forever.

"Skyrocket is good," Teddy told his boy chums, "but he isn't as good a
trick dog as Tip and Top were when they did their tricks together."

"Maybe we can teach Jack, the monkey, some new tricks," suggested Harry
Kent.

"Oh, yes, Jack must learn a lot of tricks," agreed Teddy. "We'll start on
him now, I guess, as about the only tricks Snuff can do are to roll
around on the football and jump through a paper hoop."

That last trick was a new one, and really had not been intended for
Snuff. One day Teddy and Janet were getting some paper-covered ho