CHAPTER X
Off for Africa
“HIP-HIP-HOORAY! Zowie! Rah! Rah! Rah!”
“For crying out loud!” exclaimed Bob Holton. “What’s got into you, Joe?”
Joe danced around in wild delight, throwing his hat high into the air and catching it as it came down. He stood on his head, turned a somersault on the grass, and performed other feats.
“Wow!” cried Bob. “You’d have a circus daredevil green with envy. But why all this jumping around? You act like a wild man.”
“Wild man! Hurrah for wild men! And wild animals!”
“Keep it up, old boy,” sang Bob. “When you come back to your senses, maybe I can get something out of you.”
Joe continued his acrobatic stunts, which ended very abruptly as he came up against a tree that he did not know was so close.