He began turning somersaults again, leaping back and forth, doing handsprings and cartwheels on a smooth place in the grass.
“Now watch this!” he cried, and he bent himself in the shape of a hoop by grasping his ankles with his hands. Around and around he rolled, the children laughing in glee until, all at once, Mr. Tizzy disappeared.
Out of sight he vanished, as though the earth had opened and swallowed him!
CHAPTER XIII
TED FALLS OFF
For a while the Curlytop children and Trouble thought this sudden vanishing of Mr. Tizzy was one of his tricks—he was so full and bubbling over with them. Ted said afterward he thought the movie man had doubled himself up into as small a ball as possible and was hiding behind a clump of grass.
But when nearly a minute passed and Mr. Tizzy did not come back, the children began to get worried. A trick and a joke might be all right, but this was a little too much!
“Maybe he hurt himself,” suggested Jan.
This very thought was in Ted’s mind, but his sister spoke of it first.
“Let’s look and see where he is,” went on Jan.
“He went down in a hole!” declared Trouble.