be hard to get Toto near the platform for a few days,
until he can no longer notice the lion smell."

The dog-trainer agreed with him. Wild beasts, even in captivity, give
out a strong odor, and it was this that had given the little dog the
information that some jungle creature was underneath the canvas
covering.

The efforts of Joe and Mr. Fleet to make Toto dive into the tank while
the boy fish was in it, were totally unavailing, even some days after
the lion episode. Toto would dive in when only the goldfish were there,
but the minute Joe entered the little beast refused to jump. It was not
that Toto was not friendly with Joe, either, for he would let the youth
pet him, and was very fond of him. It was one of those things which
cannot be explained, and there was no use trying to get Toto to do the
trick as Joe wanted it done.

"Well, if I have to give that up I'll work out something else," our
hero decided. And, as the show traveled on from place to place, Joe
perfected himself in aquatic work.

He was getting accustomed to staying under the water, increasing the
time of submersion a few seconds each day, and he did not doubt but he
could make a record of four minutes in the course of a month or two.
His lung power was increasing.

From Professor Rosello he had received a pack of celluloid playing
cards, and Joe now added to his tricks some sleight-of-hand work with
the Kings, Queens and other cards. It took well with the audience, but
Joe was not satisfied. He wanted something more spectacular.

Meanwhile Joe was doing less trapeze work in order to give more
attention to the tank. In private he practised picking up coins in his
mouth, as Benny had done. At first it was hard work, and more than once
Joe swallowed so much water that he had to come up to the surface. But
he did not stop on that account.

He still continued to use the goldfish, but the turtle died from some
undiscoverable cause. Senorita Tanlozo, the snake charmer, offered to
let Joe take one of her water anacondas into the tank with him.

"No, thank you," the boy fish said with a laugh and a shake of his
head. "It may be all right, but I'd be so busy watching him, to see
that he did not make a necklace of himself around my throat, that I
couldn't do my acts. I'll just work with the fishes for a while."

Gradually Joe found that he could gather up almost as many coins as
Benny had in his best day. Joe had acquired the knack of opening his
mo