"They're going to fall!" roared Mr. Sparling. "Catch them!
Catch them!"
The men hastened to move the net, and none too soon, for Teddy
and Bruiser came whirling down, the lad making desperate efforts
to right himself so as to drop on his feet. But the baboon
prevented his doing this.
They struck the net, which was jerked from the hands of the men,
and Teddy hit the deck with a terrific bump.
CHAPTER XXI
A CIRCUS BOY MISSING
"Grab the beast!"
Teddy was still clinging to the baboon so firmly that they had to
use force to get Bruiser away from him.
As for the baboon, he was too dazed from the shock of the fall
to offer any resistance, and was quickly captured and returned
to his cage.
Teddy had not fared quite so well. He was unconscious, and for a
time it was feared that he had been seriously injured.
As it turned out, however, he had escaped with nothing worse than
a severe shock and a sprained wrist. A sprain of any sort is
sufficient to lay up a circus performer for sometime. As a
result of his injury, Teddy Tucker did not work again for the
next week; that is, he did not enter the ring, though he was
anxious to do so.
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