h.

"Everybody calls us Curlytops," said Teddy. "And could you please let us
out near the dog show?"

"The dog show," repeated the conductor, wonderingly.

"This one," went on Ted, taking from his pocket a hand bill of "Professor
Montelli's Wondrous Aggregation of Canine Cut-ups." Teddy had found the
bill in the street.

"Oh, that show!" exclaimed the conductor, with a laugh. "Why, that's only
a little side-show in a tent near where this car runs. I'll let you get
off there if you want to, but it isn't much of a show. It isn't a circus,
you know," he said, as he started the car again, after a very fat lady
had gotten off. "If you're looking for a circus this isn't it. The dog
show is only a little side one--the kind they used to charge ten cents to
go in and see after or before the regular circus. I hope you Curlytops
aren't running away to see a circus," he added doubtfully.

"Oh, no, sir!" exclaimed Janet. "We're looking for our lost dog, and we
thought maybe it was with this show. Two dogs we had, Tip and Top," she
went on. "They were white poodles and they belonged to Uncle Toby and
they could do tricks. But one was stolen when we were bringing them home,
and the other night Top was taken from our barn. It's our dogs we're
looking for, not a circus."

"Besides, we're going to have a circus of our own," added Teddy. "That
is, we are if we get Tip and Top back."

"Do you think your dogs ran off to join a show?" the conductor asked.

"Oh, no!" answered Teddy. "They were taken away. But Mr. Cassidy--he's a
policeman--said the right place to look for our dogs was in a dog show,
so we're looking."

"Well, this Professor Montelli, as he calls himself, has a dog show near
the end of my trolley line," said the conductor. "I don't know much about
it, as it only came there yesterday. It's in a little tent--a regular
side show. I'll put you off near it. But do you think it will be safe for
you to go there alone and ask for your lost dogs?"

"Oh, we won't go right in and ask for them," explained Teddy. He and his
sister had talked it over, and they had made up their minds what they
would do. "We'll just go into the show--'cause we have money to pay for
our tickets," the Curlytop boy explained. "Then if we see Tip and Top
there we'll take 'em right away."

"That's what we will!" declared Janet. "And if that show man won't give
our dogs to us we'll call a policeman."

"Well, I guess you Curlytops can take care of you