old rings in their ears, were trying either to sell the
horses, or have them trained to become circus animals.

"Oh, look, Bunny!" Sue suddenly cried. "The circus is starting!"

From one of the tents came a long line of elephants, camels and horses.
On the backs of the animals were men and women who wore red, green,
blue, yellow, pink and purple clothing, which sparkled in the sunshine
as if covered with diamonds like the one in Aunt Lu's ring.

[Illustration: "THAT'S THE PARADE!" SAID BUNNY.--_Page 233._
_Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm._]

"That's the parade!" said Bunny. "That isn't the circus. That's in the
tent. Oh, I wish I could find a man to give us a ticket, or some money,
for watering the ponies!"

Bunny looked all around. But he saw no one whom he could ask. Every one
seemed to be looking at the parade which was to march through the
streets of the town, and then back to the circus grounds.

Even the Gypsy men, with the horses that Bunny and Sue thought might be
those belonging to their grandfather, were watching the parade.

"Come on!" cried Bunny. "We'll look at it, too. We can go to the circus
later. Come on, Sue!"

They found a good place where they could watch the start of the parade.
They saw the horses, elephants and camels. They saw the cages of lions
and tigers, and even bears. And they saw the big steam piano, playing
its funny tooting tunes, rumbling along. The steam piano was the last
thing in the parade.

"Now we'll go and see if we can find some one to let us in the show,"
said Bunny, when the gay procession had passed.

"But I'm hungry!" exclaimed Sue. "I got five cents, Bunny. Can't I have
some peanuts or--or pink lemonade?"

"Why--why, I guess so," said the little boy. "I got five cents, too.
I'll tell you what we can do, Sue. You buy five cents worth of peanuts,
and give me half. I'll buy a glass of pink lemonade, and give you half.
We can get two straws. You can drink half and I'll drink half."

"All right, Bunny. Only you mustn't drink faster than I do, 'cause I'm
awful thirsty."

"I'll let you drink more than half then, Sue."

The children bought the peanuts and lemonade, and when they had finished
drinking the red lemonade through two straws, and were chewing the
peanuts, they saw one of the circus men, with a long whip, come up to
the two Gypsies with the horses.

What was said Bunny and Sue could not hear, but they saw the circus man
walk off, while