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MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER


[Illustration: MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER MISBEHAVES HIMSELF [See p. 205]]


MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER

A Sequel to "TOBY TYLER"

BY JAMES OTIS

AUTHOR OF "TIM AND TIP," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

[Illustration: Logo]

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON


COPYRIGHT, 1882, 1910, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY JAMES OTIS KALER

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                        PAGE

    I. THE SCHEME                                 1

   II. THE BLIND HORSE                           14

  III. ABNER BOLTON                              31

   IV. THE PONY                                  40

    V. OLD BEN                                   54

   VI. THE GREAT EVENT                           66

  VII. ATTRACTIONS FOR THE LITTLE CIRCUS         78

 VIII. THE DINNER PARTY                          91

   IX. MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER                     105

    X. THE ACCIDENT                             119

   XI. CHANGE OF PLANS                          131

  XII. A REHEARSAL                              143

 XIII. THE RESULTS OF LONG TRAINING             156

  XIV. RAISING THE TENT                         170

   XV. STEALING DUCKS                           183

  XVI. A LOST MONKEY                            197

 XVII. DRIVING A MONKEY                         208

XVIII. COLLECTING THE ANIMALS                   218

  XIX. THE SHOW BROKE UP                        231

   XX. ABNER'S DEATH                            237


ILLUSTRATIONS

MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER MISBEHAVES HIMSELF             _Frontispiece_
                                                            FACING
                                                              PAGE
PLANNING THE CIRCUS                                             14

MR. AND MRS. TREAT EXHIBIT PRIVATELY                            92

TOBY RESCUES THE CROWING HEN FROM MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER         234




MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER




CHAPTER I

THE SCHEME


"Why, we could start a circus jest as easy as a wink, Toby, 'cause you
know all about one an' all you'd have to do would be to tell us fellers
what to do, an' we'd 'tend to the rest."

"Yes; but you see we hain't got a tent, or bosses, or wagons, or
nothin', an' I don't see how you could get a circus up that way;" and
the speaker hugged his knees as he rocked himself to and fro in a musing
way on the rather sharp point of a large rock, on which he had seated
himself in order to hear what his companions had to say that was so
important.

"Will you come down with me to Bob Atwood's, an' see what he says about
it?"

"Yes, I'll do that if you'll come out afterwards for a game of I-spy
'round the meetin'-house."

"All right; if we can find enough of the other fellers, I will."

Then the boys slipped down from the rocks, found the cows, and drove
them home as the preface to their visit to Bob Atwood's.

The boy who was so anxious to start a circus was a little fellow with
such a wonderful amount of remarkably red hair that he was seldom called
anything but Reddy, although his name was known--by his parents, at
least--to be Walter Grant. His companion was Toby Tyler, a boy who, a
year before, had thought it would be a very pleasant thing to run away
from his Uncle Daniel and the town of Guilford in order to be with a
circus, and who, in ten weeks, was only too glad to run back home as
rapidly as possible.

During the first few months of his return, very many brilliant offers
had been made Toby by his companions to induce him to aid them in
starting an amateur circus; but he had refused to have anything to do
with the schemes, and for several reasons. During the ten weeks he had
been away, he had seen quite as much of a circus life as he cared to
see, without even such a mild dose as would be this amateur show; and,
again, whenever he thought of the matter, the remembrance of the death
of his monkey, Mr. Stubbs, would come upon him so vividly, and cause him
so much sorrow, that he resolutely put the matter from his mind.

Now, however, it had been a year since the monkey was killed; school had
closed during the summer season; and he was rather more disposed to
listen to the requests of his friends.

On this particular night, Reddy Grant had offered to go with him for the
cows--an act of generosity which Toby accounted for only on the theory