Some elephants played a ball game, others
turned somersaults. Clowns jumped over their backs, and through paper
hoops.
"Look here!" Nan would exclaim.
"No, see over there!" Bert would cry.
"Oh, mamma, a man jumped from the top of the tent right into a big
fish net!" exclaimed Freddie.
"Look at the monkey riding on the dog's back," Flossie shouted.
"And see that man jump off a horse and jump on him again backwards!"
called Tom Mason.
"Oh, but look at the cute ponies," sighed Mabel Herold.
There was so much to see and talk about that the children's eyes must
have been tired, and their necks aching before the circus was over.
At last it came to an end with the exciting chariot races, and the
crowd began to leave the big tent.
"Now keep close together, children," warned Mrs. Bobbsey. "You must
not get lost in this crowd."
"Yes, follow me," advised Uncle Daniel.
How it happened they could not tell, but when they reached the
outside of the tent, and found a space where the crowd was not so
thick, Freddie was missing.
"Where is Freddie?" asked Nan, looking about for him.
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