Joe Strong on the high wire

Two boys, or, rather, two youths, walked arm in arm across a lot whereon stood several tents, one large and the others smaller. From one came the loud trumpetings of elephants a...

Down the highway rode Joe Strong on his powerful motor-cycle. He did not look back after that final glance at the group of his circus friends, for, truth to tell, the parting ha...

Joe Strong had run at top speed, and had traveled a goodly distance from the bridge in a comparatively short time, for he realized that the big automobile was going fast and wou...

With an involuntary cry of alarm, Joe started to run toward the scene of the accident. All thought of trying to recover the plank was now gone. That could wait. The men in the a...

"I'm only too glad to do more," Joe said. "I can make a quick trip on my motor-cycle. It's too late for me to get to where I was going to-night in time to attend to my business."

"Of course we can make almost any kind of apparatus, Joe," he said, "and I know you circus fellows take mighty big risks. But I wouldn't like to make for you, or for any one els...

Outside the circus-apparatus factory a big field had been made ready for Joe's motor-cycle experiment. The place belonged to Mr. Brader, and there was a high wooden fence all ab...

Lucky it was for Joe Strong that Mr. Brader had taken the precaution to spread the life-nets under the platforms, for when the young wire-rider plunged off he landed safely, if...

"I believe you have struck it, Joe," he said. "To eliminate the platforms would be the very thing needed. The only difficulty I see is in riding over the wire rope at the point...

Joe Strong had succeeded. He had demonstrated that he could ride his motor-cycle across a high wire, and that was what he had set out to do. And it had proved to be a thrilling...

Rather exhausted, not so much physically as mentally, by the nervous strain of performing so thrilling an act before a big crowd for the first time, Joe Strong did not at first...

Helen and Joe related their experiences since the former boy fish had left the circus, and Helen was as interested in Joe's new success as he was in her continued one with her t...

On opening his letters one day Joe found one from the management of a county fair that was to open in the town of Livingston the next week. The writer offered Joe an engagement...

Amid a riot of frightened cries--hoarse ones from the men and shrill screams from the women in the audience--Joe Strong fell into the net. He fell straight and true, as he had f...

The apparatus had been set up at the fair grounds in Lancaster, where Joe had his first engagement following his accident. He had received his new machine, and had given it a th...

"No, it's just a collection of freak stunts to make thrilling reels. We had this fellow jump off the Brooklyn bridge, and he did it without turning a hair. But you saw what happ...

Mr. Potter took out pencil and paper and drew a rough sketch. Joe, who expected to see depicted some rocky gorge, perhaps in the Bronx section of New York, was surprised to note...

Joe Strong was rather taken by surprise. To be sure he had thought of some day rejoining some circus, if not the one he had formerly been with as the daring trapeze performer an...

There was a different atmosphere about the circus in Madison Square Garden than there had been on the road while showing under canvas. The performers seemed keyed up to a higher...

The Sampson Brothers' Show in Madison Square Garden was drawing big crowds, and everything seemed to be going along satisfactorily. Joe's act on the high wire continued to thril...

"Well, we don't have to get up yet," was announced from one of the berths, where the sound of a shade being pulled up could be heard, indicating that the occupant of the bed had...

"If you don't mind, and will come to my dressing room, I shall be very glad to have a talk with you. That is, unless you want to stay and see the rest of the performance."

Strange indeed had been the coincidence of Joe's meeting once again with one of the men he had helped at the time of their automobile accident, and he and Mr. Strailey talked ab...

Joe Strong hardly stopped to consider what he was doing. He had but one thought in mind, and that was to get in communication with Mr. Craige, and that as soon as possible.

The tip which Joe bestowed on that messenger boy was the largest that youth had received in some time. The messenger boy looked at the smiling lad who gave it to him, and then,...