Download or read book The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings Esprios Classics written by Edgar B. P. Darlington and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""I say, Phil, I can do that. " "Do what, Teddy? " "A cartwheel in the air like that fellow is doing in the picture on the billboard there. " "Oh, pshaw! You only think you can. Besides, that's not a cartwheel; that's a double somersault. It's a real stunt, let me tell you. Why, I can do a cartwheel myself. But up in the air like that-well, I don't know. I guess not. I'd be willing to try it, though, if I had something below to catch me, " added the lad, critically surveying the figures on the poster before them."

Download or read book Toby Tyler Or Ten Weeks with a Circus Esprios Classics written by James Otis and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Otis Kaler (1848-1912) was an American journalist and author of children's literature. He used the pen name James Otis. He got a job with the Boston Journal when he was in his teens. Later, he went on to work as a journalist or editor for various newspapers, a superintendent at schools, and a publicity man at a circus. In 1880, under the pen name James Otis, he authored his first children's book, Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus, a story about an orphan who runs away to join the circus. Following the book's success he went on to author numerous other children's books. After spending several years in the southeastern states, he returned to Maine to become the first superintendent in South Portland.