"This is worse
than the shooting in the moving pictures. Let's go home."
Nan was very willing to go, and so was Mabel. Freddie, too, after
thinking it over, decided that he had better go back with the girls,
and get his toy fire engine ready for any possible danger.
"What do you say, Bert, shall we go back?" inquired Harry.
"Well, I don't know," slowly replied the older Bobbsey lad. "I don't
really believe in the least that any wild animals are loose, but if
the girls aren't going berrying there's no use in us going."
"I guess that's right," agreed Tom. "No use going on alone."
And, though none of the older boys would admit it, I think they, too,
were rather glad to turn back after having heard the story of the
escape of the wild circus animals.
"Well, I'm all ready for 'em, if I meet any," declared Jim, as he
drove on, having told the news.
On the way back Bert and the others met several farmers who knew Harry
or Tom, and each of these men said they had also heard the story of
the escape of a lion, tiger and bear.
"And if they are loose, some of us may miss some cattle or sheep,"
declared Mr.
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