suppose," said Snap.

"Yes; the kind my aunt was afraid of," added the doctor's son.

"We can do it jest as well as not," they heard one of the men say.
"An' we got a right, too."

"Sure we got a right," said another of the trio in a heavy, rasp-like
voice. "We'll show Casso what it means to do a feller out o' his
lawful wages."

"Yes; but you look out you ain't caught," added the third man. "He's
got all hands watching to spot us."

"We'll bust up his show, see if we don't," growled the first speaker.

"They must be the fellows who were discharged for drunkenness,"
whispered Snap.

"Yes; and they are laying plans to square up with the proprietor,"
added Whopper. "Wonder what they will do?"

"If they are up to anything unlawful, they ought to be exposed," was
Mr. Jally's comment. He, too, had heard of the quarrel of the
afternoon before.

"I don't care to put myself out to help that circus man," said
Snap. "He is responsible for what happened to that sick boy. At
the same time, I know 'two wrongs don't make a right.`"

The men continued to talk, but in such low tones that the others
could only catch a word or two. Something was said about a lion
and a chimpanzee and a toolhouse, but the boys could not imagine
what the circus men had in mind to do.

Presently one of the circus men got up from his seat and walked
around the lumber piles. When he saw the boys and Mr. Jally he
uttered a whistle of surprise. Then he turned back to his companions,
and all three of the men hurried away into the woods skirting the
railroad tracks.

CHAPTER V

SOMETHING ABOUT A LION

"They are certainly up to something," was Snap's comment.

"Yes; and I'd give something to know just what it is," added the
doctor's son.

Having rested, Mr. Jally took the boys to the bank of the river and
there showed them how to make a good picture with a strong reflection
in the water. This was rather difficult because of the distribution
of light over the plate.

"Be careful when you point your camera toward the sun," said the
photographer. "Otherwise you may get a sun-spot, or 'ghost,' right
in the center of your picture."

"I know about that," said Whopper. "Once I tried to take a picture
of my cousin standing by a well. The glare of the sun got on the
plate just where her head ought to have been, so she was headless."

"That sure was a ghost!" cried Shep; and then all laughed.

The boys were to take the seven