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Sue did not swing on the trapeze, nor jump, as Bunny had done. Bunker and Ben put up more trapezes in the barn big ones for themselves. Ben could swing and turn somersaults and drop off into the hay from away up near the roof of the barn. Bunker could not do quite as well as this, but, for all that, he was pretty good. "Will you two act in our circus?" asked Bunny of Bunker and Ben.
He was at home, evidently waiting for something, at an hour when all the other boys were out playing; and that, in itself, would have made Toby suspicious if he had paid much attention to the matter. Bob was perfectly willing to talk about a circus so willing that, almost before Toby was aware of it, he was laying plans with the others for such a show as could be given with the material at hand.
"I laughed when I first heard about the circus comin'; I thought 't was so unusual late in the season. Turned out well, however. Everybody I noticed was returnin' with a palm-leaf fan. Guess they found 'em useful under the tent; 't was a master hot day. I saw old lady Price with her hands full o' those free advertisin' fans, as if she was layin' in a stock against next summer.
Grandpa Brown looked surprised and, taking off his straw hat, scratched his head, as he always did when thinking. "Going to have a circus; eh? Well, where abouts?" "In your barn," said Bunny. "That is, if you'll let us." Grandpa Brown thought for a little while. "Well," he said slowly, "I guess I don't mind. I s'pose it's only a make-believe circus; isn't it?" "Yes," answered Bunny.
You keep at it year after year, and sometimes they die, and sometimes they get crippled it's all in the luck of the game. You may give fifty pounds for a horse, and find that he can never get over his fear of the elephant, while you give ten pounds for another, and find him a ready-made performer almost." We passed out through the ghostly circus and the menagerie tent down to the stable tent.
It is only eight o'clock, and the circus begins at two, so Bob said," Elf remarked, with the thought of calming Vera, but that was not so easily done. "But it's a two-hour ride out there. Come up to my room, Elf, and help me choose a dress," Vera replied, as she caught Elf by the hand and rushed up the stairway. How they laughed. The morning sped on wings, and lunch was served early.
Thrush's present fate had been brought about by a tragic circumstance, the death of his only child, a girl of twelve, who had been run over by an omnibus in Oxford Circus and killed on the spot. Left alone with a peevish, nagging wife who had never suited him, or, as he expressed it, "studied" him in any way, he had gone down the hill till he had landed near the bottom.
"You did that well!" said Ben Hall. "Just like in a circus," added Sue. "Did I do it good?" asked Bunny Brown. "You surely did. For the first time it was very good for such a small boy," answered Ben. "Now try again." "Oh, I like it!" Bunny cried. "I'm going to do it lots and lots of times, and then I'm going to turn somersaults." "Well, not right away," advised Ben.
Hickory, go tell Adine that the circus party that Landy told her about is here to see the colt." Both men set about their tasks. Flinthead led out a horse, mounted and rode down a lane, propping the gates open as he went. From a corral back of the stables came a drove of horses, mares, colts, and yearlings.
There were many of the pupils from his school there, and the howling and shouting that greeted him made the lad's cheeks burn. But now, instead of wanting to crawl under something and hide, Phil felt a thrill of pleasure, of pride in the achievement that was denied to all the rest of his friends. The inspiring music of the circus band, too, added to his exhilaration.
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