human
Quick, Bill! Benny's got a cramp in the tank! We've got to get him out in a hurry. Come on with me!
gpt
It's Ben--in the tank--something wrong,
human
I get you! said Bill quickly. He dropped the big stick he was pretending to use as a bat, and hurried with Joe to the big glass tank. As yet no one else seemed to have noticed anything wrong with the
gpt
Other acts were going on around him, and the crowd, watching through the glass sides of the tank, appeared to take it all as a matter of course. Ben was still under water, but he was doing nothing save swimming about slowly--altogether too slowly, Joe thought, for it indicated that whatever ailed the
human
What's the matter? asked Jim Tracy of Joe, as the young acrobat and Bill hurried across the tent.
gpt
Why aren't you two going on with your acts?
human
Ben's in some kind of a fit, answered Joe.
gpt
We've got to get him out of the tank.
human
Whew! Great Scott! exclaimed the ring-master in a low voice.
gpt
Can we do it without starting a panic?
human
We've got to, said Joe fiercely.
gpt
If the audience knows that he's nearly drowned----
human
They mustn't know, agreed Tracy.
gpt
Come on.