Elephants keep disappearing from the circus despite being under guard. Bozo and Sparky investigate and it appears the Boss is using an inflatable elephant to swindle the insurance company.; The Boss fires Mojah the elephant trainer, who puts a curse on the circus. A small man applies for work as a magician, but the Boss doesn't believe him and hires him as a water boy for the elephants. Shortly, all kinds of strange events start occurring throughout the circus.; The Boss decides Bozo should perform a human cannonball act.; When a lion escapes from his cage, Bozo uses some ventriloquism to convince the Boss that it is a "Ya-Chi-Ta," a lion that talks.; A seal disrupts an music act by blowing his horn off-key.; Bozo uses a giraffe to replace the pole in a firehouse.; Bozo does tricks to try to cheer up a lady who is crying.; When the grounds foreman forbids the children to use the circus ropes as jump-ropes, Bozo uses the elephants to make a substitute.