Part 6 (1/2)
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”Elephants! There's two of thereat? I didn't suppose they'd have any elephants
Wonder if there's any lions and tigers in those big wagons”
”Of course there are Didn't you see pictures of them on the bills, Teddy?”
”I don't know Dan Marts, the postmaster, says you can't set any store by the pictures He says s you see in the pictures, and maybe they haven't There's a camel!
Look at it! How'd you like to ride on that huleefully
”Shouldn't like it at all”
”I read in raphy that they ride on them all the time on the--on--on Sarah's Desert”
”Oh, you hed Phil
”Well, maybe”
”I should rather ride an elephant See, it's just like a rocking chair I could al”
”I couldn't,” declared Teddy ”I couldn't anyby than I could fly without wings”
”See, there coer than St Bernard dogs They could walk right under the elephants and not touch them”
”Where do they all sleep?” wondered Teddy
”Who, the ponies?”
”No, of course not The people”
”I don't know unless they sleep in the cages with the anihed Phil ”So on the horses”
”I'd be willing to go without sleep if I could be a showreed Phil ”hello! There coons Coo over to the grounds where the circus is co we know”
”That's so, and I want to be around You going to work any, Teddy?”
”Not I I' pails of water for the elephants for a ticket of ad except a stand-up I can stand up cheaper than that”
Both boys slipped froan rapidly overhauling and passing the slow-ons with their tired horses and more tired drivers
By the tions were already there Shouts sprang up froanthe best places in which to pitch the tents Here and there they would drive in a stake, on one of which they tied a piece of newspaper