"Let go and jump," advised Ben.
"Oh, I—I'm afraid," said Bunny.
"You won't get hurt!" exclaimed the older boy. "You must learn to jump from the trapeze into the soft hay. That's what they do in a circus. Jump while you're swinging. You won't get hurt."
"Are you sure, Ben?"
"Sure. Give a jump now, and see what happens."
Bunny wanted to do some of the things he had seen the circus men do, and one of them was jumping from the trapeze. The little boy looked down at the pile of hay below him. It seemed nice and soft, but it also looked to be a good distance off.
"Come on, Bunny, jump!" called Bunker.
"All right. Here I come!"
Bunny let go of the trapeze bar. He shot through the air, and, for a second or two, he was afraid he was going to be hurt. But, the next thing he knew, he had landed feet first on a soft pile of hay and he wasn't hurt a bit!
"Good!" cried Bunker Blue.