"I did hear it! Bill Snowden told
me. You know he lives over on the road that runs from Rosedale to
Blaisdell and the circus went there. It went right past his house in
the night, and he looked out of his window and saw the camels and
elephants and wild animal cages."
"I saw the elephants, too!" exclaimed Freddie. "I took hold of one's
big toothpick tooth. Elephants eat hay. Were they eating any hay when
that boy saw 'em? I wish elephants would go past our house."
"Quiet, Freddie dear, please," said Nan. "We want to hear about the
wild animals. Did they really get loose?" she asked, and she looked
over her shoulder, as did Flossie and Mabel Herold.
"Well, that's what Bill Snowden said," replied Jim Bates. "Of course I
didn't see 'em run away myself, but I'm all ready for 'em, if I meet
any bears, or lions or tigers," he added.
"Ready for 'em--how do you mean?" asked Bert.
"I've got a big club, and some stones," answered Jim, and he took up
from the seat beside him a stout stick, and showed where he had made a
little pile of stones in the wagon.
"They wouldn't hurt a lion," said Freddie.
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