"Hurray! Hurray!" the children in other wagons would answer back.
"Isn't it jolly?"
And indeed it was a jolly time for everyone. Even Dinah forgot her
fear of the wild animals when from a distance she caught sight of the
white circus tents with the gaily colored flags streaming from them.
Uncle Bobbsey found a shed, near the circus grounds, where he could
leave the horses and wagon, for he did not want to take the team into
town, for fear the sight of the circus animals, and the music of the
band, and the steam piano, or Calliope, might scare them, and make
them run away.
"We'll watch the parade," Uncle Daniel said. "Then we'll come back
here, eat our lunch, and go to the show in the afternoon."
This plan was carried out, and a little later the children and the old
folks were standing in line in the big crowd, waiting for the circus
parade to come past. Every once in a while someone would step out into
the middle of the street, and look up and down.
"Is it coming? Is it coming?" others in the crowd would ask.
"Not yet," would be the answer.
"Oh, look!" suddenly exclaimed Bert, pointing to the window of an
office building near which they were standing.
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