The big tent, once used at the fair, but which the boys had now borrowed for their circus, was all tangled up in the water. The ropes and cloth were twisted and wound around among the sticks and stones, where the tent had drifted, after the flood of the night before had carried it away.
"Oh, we'll never get that out so we can use it," said Charlie Tenny, one of the boys who was helping Ben, Bunker and the others.
"Yes, we'll get it out," said Ben. "We've got Bunny Brown to help us you know."
Some of the boys laughed, and Bunny's face grew red.
"Now I mean just what I say!" cried Ben. "Bunny Brown is a brave little chap, and if it hadn't been for him and his sister Sue we big fellows wouldn't have thought of getting up a circus show. So it's a good thing to have a chap like him with us, even if he is small."
Bunny felt better after this, and he thought Ben was very kind to speak as he had done.
"Splash is here, too," said Bunny. "He can get hold of a rope and pull like anything."
"That's right," said Bunker Blue. "Maybe Splash can help us. He is a strong dog."
"It's a good thing the tent didn't go all the way down to the river," said Charlie. "Otherwise we might never have found it."
"Yes," put in Bunker. "And now let's see if we can get it to shore. It's not going to be easy."