A Circus Stowaway

Ted, a tiny orphan sees his first circus parade and is much impressed with it. So much so, in fact, that he follows the line of march to the "Big Tent," and manages to get a free ticket by helping to care for the animals. So he became a circus stowaway. This is something that small boys frequently attempt, but seldom "get away with." But Ted, despite his youth, was resourceful. He hid in an empty animal wagon, and had a perfectly delightful, sleepless, goose-flesh-raising ride to the next town. For he figured that perhaps a Royal Bengal tiger might come home at any moment and object to crowded quarters. But nothing terrible happened except that the next day he was discovered and dragged from his place of refuge. The man who found him was about to throw him out, and would have done so had it not been for a kindly circus rider, who came along, rescued him, took him to his dressing room, fed him some wonderful circus sandwiches and put him to sleep on a pile of clothes in the corner. Ted vowed that he would do anything in the world for the man who had been so kind to him, and his chance came shortly. For one of the ringmasters, applied to for assistance in locating a missing heir to a large estate, laid a plot to swindle the rightful heir out of his fortune. He did not notice Ted, who was lying very quietly in the corner, but Ted did not miss a word, especially when he realized that it was his benefactor who was to be swindled. Ted foils the plot in a decidedly novel way, just when the wicked ringmaster and his accomplice thought that victory was in their grasp. And Ted's benefactor never forgot that he owed his life of ease and luxury to the tiny circus stowaway whom he had befriended out of pure good nature. - IMDb