“Oh, fine!” cried Connie eagerly. “Only we don’t know how.”
“Your part will be easy,” encouraged Mr. Leitsall. “All you need to do is to shout and scream when I raise my hand.”
“But how will that help to train the horse?” inquired Connie, deeply puzzled.
“A ring horse must learn to pay no heed to noise,” explained the circus man. “Even if a storm blows the tent down he must not lose a single step.”
Eva found several old tin cans. She offered Veve two of them.
“What are these for?” Veve asked.
“Bang them together and they’ll make a lot of noise,” laughed Eva. “We’ll see if we can frighten the horse.”
Connie and Veve never had heard of training a horse in such a strange way. However, they were very willing to help.
While the three girls sat by the ringside, Eva’s father made the horse canter around the ring. Suddenly he raised his hand.
“Now!” shouted Eva. “Make all the noise you can!”