Grandpa Brown showed the children two tame roosters, that would let
Bunny and Sue stroke their glossy feathers.

"You may put them in a box, and make believe they are any sort of wild
bird or animal you like," said the farmer.

The children promised to be kind to the roosters. They did not put them
in cages that day, as it was too soon.

That afternoon Tom White, Nellie Bruce, Jimmie Kenny, Sallie Smith and
Ned Johnson came over to see Bunny and Sue. They all went out to the
barn, and there they got ready for the circus. Bunny and Sue, as well as
the other children, were to be dressed up in funny clothes, which their
mothers said they would make for them.

Bunny was to do some "acts" on the trapeze, and fall down in the hay.
Then he and Sue were to do part of a little Punch and Judy show they had
once given, though Bunny, this time, had no big lobster claw to put on
his nose.

"All ready now!" called Bunny, when his friends were in the barn. "All
ready to practise for the circus!"




CHAPTER XII

THE LITTLE CIRCUS