"Sure," said Harry kindly. "We boys won't be enough. We'll have to
have the girls."
"Where's it going to be?" asked Nan.
"Here in the barn," her brother said. "We're going to make a cage for
Snap--he's going to be the lion."
"Can Snoop be one of the animals, too?" she inquired.
"Yes, Snoop will be the black tiger," decided Harry. "I only hope he
keeps awake, and growls now and then. That will make it seem real."
"Snoop sometimes growls when he gets a piece of meat," suggested Nan.
"Then we'll give him meat in the show," decided Bert.
He and Harry finished making the show bills, and then began to get
ready for the performance. With some old sheets they made a curtain
across one corner of the barn, in front of the haymow. Nan helped with
this, as she could use a needle, thread and thimble better than could
the boys.
Then Tom Mason, Mabel Herold and some other of the country boys and
girls came over, and they were allowed to be in the show. Bert was to
be a clown, and he put on an old suit, turned inside out, and whitened
his face with starch, which he begged from Martha.
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