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Updated: May 1, 2025
"'Got a fine hoss thar, sez I; 'reckon I never see such a purty color, sez I. 'He is purty, sez he, 'per'aps too purty for ME to be a-drivin', but he isn't fast. 'I ain't speakin' o' that, sez I; 'it's his looks that I'm talkin' of; whar might ye hev got him? 'He was offered to me by a fr'en' o' me boyhood, sez he; 'he's a pinto mustang, sez he, 'from Californy, whar they breed 'em. 'What's a pinto hoss? sez I. 'The same ez a calico hoss, sez he; 'what they have in cirkises, but ye never see 'em that color. En he was right, for when I looked him over I never DID see such a soft and silky coat, and his mane and tail jest glistened.
Why, that book of natural history that Hector lent us after he got licked for stealing the melons tells about the way hunters train them to act in cirkises. I'd like to see them awfully much myself." "Then let's ask Gail. She might have a little spare money." "No, I don't think she would. We'll have to earn the money ourselves, but I'm afraid she won't want us to go. That's what is bothering me.
"'I hain't got no money to go to cirkises, I says, rubbin' the dusty toes o' one foot over t' other, 'nor nothin' else, I says. "'Wa'al, he says, 'why don't you crawl under the canvas? "That kind o' riled me, shy 's I was. 'I don't crawl under no canvases, I says. 'If I can't go in same 's other folks, I'll stay out, I says, lookin' square at him fer the fust time.
"I don't think we would have to ask much, 'cause she thinks cirkises are bad, and I don't b'lieve she would like to have us there." "What makes you so sure? I never have heard her say a thing about them." "She told Hope so the time Hope wanted to see 'Julio and Romiet' when they studied it in school." "That wasn't a cirkis, that was a theatre, Allee. That's different.
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