"It won't make me laugh, if you upset me too hard!" declared Tom.

"I'll spread some hay on the floor, like the time I did when Bunny
fell," said Sue. "Then you won't be hurt. It doesn't hurt to fall on
hay; does it, Bunny?"

"Nope."

"All right. Ned can upset me out of the wheelbarrow if he does it on the
hay," agreed Tom.

So those two boys began to practise this part of the circus, while Bunny
swung from the trapeze. Jimmie Kenny said he would climb up as high as
he could and slide down a rope, like a sailor.

"I'll have some hay under me, too, so if I slip I won't be hurt," he
said.

Indeed, if it had not been for the big piles of soft hay in grandpa's
barn I don't know what the little circus performers would have done.

While the boys were practising the things they were going to do, Sue and
her little girl friends made up a little act of their own.

Each one had a doll, and they practised a little song which they had
sung in school. It was about putting the dollies to sleep in a cat's
cradle, and a little mouse came in and awakened them, and then they went
out to gather flowers for the honey bees.

Just a simple little song, but Sue and her friends sung it very nicely.