The fire was blazing so fiercely, nobody wanted to get near it. Mr Boffinbrain, however, took a running jump and launched himself into the air. He clung onto the overhead light and soared across the ceiling so that he was above all the flames.
The crowd outside the window stared as he nimbly hooked his feet around the light cable and swung upside down.
“Look at him go,” marvelled Lucy. “He really was in the circus, wasn’t he?”