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.