

E-text prepared by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project
Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from
page images generously made available by Internet Archive
(http://www.archive.org)



Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this
      file which includes the original illustrations.
      See 32393-h.htm or 32393-h.zip:
      (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32393/32393-h/32393-h.htm)
      or
      (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32393/32393-h.zip)


      Images of the original pages are available through
      Internet Archive. See
      http://www.archive.org/details/tobytylerortenwe00kalerich





TOBY TYLER

or

Ten Weeks with a Circus

by

JAMES OTIS

Illustrated



[Illustration: BREAKFAST IN THE WOODS. _See p. 235._]






[Illustration]

New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers

      *      *      *      *      *      *

HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE SERIES

EACH, SIXTY CENTS


_FRANCONIA STORIES_

BY JACOB ABBOTT

Malleville
Mary Bell
Ellen Linn
Wallace
Beechnut
Stuyvesant
Agnes
Mary Erskine
Rodolphus
Caroline

BY W. L. ALDEN

The Moral Pirates
The Cruise of the "Ghost"
The Cruise of the Canoe Club
The Adventures of Jimmy Brown
Jimmy Brown Trying to Find Europe
A New Robinson Crusoe

BY JAMES BARNES

The Blockaders

BY WILLIAM BLACK

The Four Macnicols

BY LEWIS CARROLL

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking-Glass
The Hunting of the Snark

BY COL. W. F. CODY

The Adventures of Buffalo Bill

BY GEORGE C. EGGLESTON

Strange Stories from History

BY JOHN HABBERTON

Who Was Paul Grayson?

BY MRS. W. J. HAYS

Prince Lazybones
The Princess Idleways

BY GEORGE A. HENTY

In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers

BY W. J. HENDERSON

Sea Yarns for Boys

BY ERNEST INGERSOLL

The Ice Queen

BY DAVID KER

The Lost City
Into Unknown Seas

BY LUCY C. LILLIE

Mildred's Bargain
Nan
Jo's Opportunity
Phil and the Baby
False Witness
Rolf House
Music and Musicians
The Colonel's Money
The Household of Glen Holly

BY LIVINGSTON B. MORSE

The Road to Nowhere

BY MISS MULOCK

The Little Lame Prince
The Adventures of a Brownie
Little Sunshine's Holiday
The Cousin from India
Twenty Years Ago
Is It True?
Miss Moore
An Only Sister

BY KIRK MUNROE

Wakulla
The Flamingo Feather
Derrick Sterling
Chrystal Jack & Co. etc.

BY JAMES OTIS

Mr. Stubbs's Brother
Tim and Tip
Toby Tyler, or, Ten Weeks with a Circus
Raising the "Pearl"
Silent Pete, or, the Stowaways
Left Behind, or, Ten Days a Newsboy

BY G. B. PERRY

Uncle Peter's Trust

BY L. C. PYRNELLE

Diddie, Dumps, and Tot

BY MARGARET E. SANGSTER

Little Knights and Ladies--Poems

BY W. O. STODDARD

Two Arrows
The Red Mustang
The Talking Leaves

BY SOPHIE SWETT

Captain Polly

_STRANGE STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY_

Strange Stories of Colonial Days
Strange Stories of the Revolution
Strange Stories of 1812
Strange Stories of the Civil War

_ADVENTURE SERIES_

Adventures of Uncle Sam's Sailors
Adventures of Uncle Sam's Soldiers
Adventures with Indians
Adventures of Pirates and Sea-Rovers

_Illustrated. Price, per volume, 60 cents_

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1880, 1881, 1909, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1909, BY JAMES OTIS KALER

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      *      *      *      *      *      *



CONTENTS.


CHAP.                                                   PAGE

       I. TOBY'S INTRODUCTION TO THE CIRCUS                9

      II. TOBY RUNS AWAY FROM HOME                        20

     III. THE NIGHT