This is a very early story, but is a far more accomplished and mature work than its surviving predecessors.
Young Freddie has seen a poster for a circus and is very impressed by the picture of Herculax the lion tamer. His parents won't pay for a ticket, so he sets out to earn the ninepence admission. But will Herculax live up to his image?
Evening Standard, 22 August 1935
Included in the collection Comedies and Whimsies, 2009.