"Oh, well, I've seen 'em," said Ben, slowly.
"And the way you jumped on the horse—why, you must have been watching pretty hard to see just how to do that," Bunker went on. "I've seen lots of circuses, but I can't jump up the way you can, Ben."
"Then he can ride a horse in our circus," said Sue.
"Can you hang on a trapeze?" asked Bunny.
"Well, maybe," the new boy answered. "But you haven't any trapeze here, have you?"
"We can make one, out of a broom stick and some clothes line," said Bunny. "I've got 'em all ready," and he showed where he had put, in a hole in the hay, the rope and stick.
"Good! That's the idea!" exclaimed Ben Hall. "Now I'll just climb up to the roof beams, and fasten the rope of the trapeze."
Up climbed Ben, and he was making fast the ropes, when, all at once Bunny, Sue and Bunker Blue, who were watching the strange boy, saw him suddenly slip off the beam on which he was standing.
"Oh, poor Ben!" sighed Sue. "He's going to get an awful hard bump, so he is!"