Dinah listened with wide-opened eyes, and if she could have
turned pale I think she would have done so. But of course she could
not, for she was the color of a chocolate cake, and had to stay that
way.
"Oh, I don't believe a word of it!" exclaimed Uncle Daniel, when he
heard the tale. "Every time a circus comes to town there is a story of
wild animals escaping, but I've never seen any yet. I don't believe it
at all!"
But the children did, and later, when Uncle Daniel came back from a
visit to the village store that evening, he had to admit that several
persons had spoken to him about the wild beasts being loose.
"Hadn't you better see if your shot gun is loaded?" his wife asked
him.
"Well, I will, if it will make you feel any easier," he agreed. "But
there's no danger of any of them coming near here, even if they have
escaped, which I don't believe."
The children were rather frightened that night, and would not go far
from the porch to play in the moonlight, which they usually did before
going to bed.
Of course Bert and Harry were not as frightened as were Flossie and
Freddie, but they looked nervously over their shoulders at the dark
places under the bushes as they passed them.
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