James Otis................................................................................................................................................1 I: TOBY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCUS..................................................................................1 II: TOBY RUNS AWAY FROM HOME................................................................................................5 III: THE NIGHT RIDE............................................................................................................................8 IV: THE FIRST DAY WITH THE CIRCUS........................................................................................11 V: THE COUNTERFEIT TEN CENT PIECE......................................................................................15 VI: A TENDER HEARTED SKELETON............................................................................................18 VII: AN ACCIDENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES............................................................................23 VIII: CAPTURE OF THE MONKEYS.................................................................................................26 IX: THE DINNER PARTY...................................................................................................................28 X: MR. STUBBS AT A PARTY...........................................................................................................33 XI: A STORMY NIGHT.......................................................................................................................38 XII: TOBY'S GREAT MISFORTUNE.................................................................................................41 XIII: TOBY ATTEMPTS TO RESIGN HIS SITUATION..................................................................45 XIV: MR. CASTLE TEACHES TOBY TO RIDE...............................................................................49 XV: TOBY'S FRIENDS PRESENT HIM WITH A COSTUME..........................................................54 XVI: TOBY'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN THE RING.........................................................................58 XVII: OFF FOR HOME!......................................................................................................................62 XVIII: A DAY OF FREEDOM.............................................................................................................68 XIX: MR STUBBS'S MISCHIEF, AND HIS SAD FATE...................................................................71 XX: HOME AND UNCLE DANIEL....................................................................................................75
TOBY TYLER
or
Ten Weeks with a Circus
by James Otis
\u201cWouldn't you give more 'n six peanuts for a cent?\u201d was a question asked by a very small boy, with big,
staring eyes, of a candy vender at a circus booth. And as he spoke he looked wistfully at the quantity of nuts
piled high up on the basket, and then at the six, each of which now looked so small as he held them in his
hand.
IX: THE DINNER PARTY for Toby Tyler
