ide the tent of a man swallowing swords by the
dozen, and also knives and forks, and another picture of a lady wrapping
a fat snake around her neck, because she was cold, I guess, and then you
could hear the lions roaring and the elephants trumpeting, and the band
was playing, and the peanut wagons were whistling like teakettles,
and--and--Oh! why, if I write any more about that circus I'll want to take
my typewriter, and put it away in a dark closet, and go to the show
myself!

But anyhow it was very fine, and pretty soon Bully and Bawly and their
papa and grandpa were in the tent looking at the animals. They fed the
elephant peanuts until they had none for themselves, and they looked at
the camel with two humps, and at the one with only one hump, because I
s'pose he didn't have money enough to buy two, and then they went in the
tent where the real show was.

Well it went off very fine. The big parade was over, and the men were
doing acts on the trapeze, and the trained seals were playing ball with
their noses, and the clowns were cutting up funny capers. And all at
once a man, with a shiny hat on, came out in the middle of the ring, and
said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, permit me to call your attention to our jumping
dog, Nero. He is the greatest jumping dog in the world, and he will jump
over an elephant's back!"

Well, the people clapped like anything after that, and a clown came out,
leading a dog. Everybody was all excited, especially when another clown
led out a big elephant. Then it was the turn of the dog to jump over the
elephant. Well, he tried it, but he didn't go over. The clown petted
him, and gave him a sweet cracker, and the dog tried it again, but he
couldn't do it. Then he tried once more and he fell right down under the
elephant, and the elephant lifted Nero up in his trunk, and set him
gently down on some straw.

Then the clown took off his funny, pointed hat and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am very sorry, but my poor dog is sick and he
can't jump to-day, and I have nothing else that can jump over the
elephant's back."

Every one felt quite disappointed at that, but still they were sorry for
the poor dog. The clown led him away, and the other clown was leading
the elephant off, when Bully said to Bawly:

"Don't you think we could do that jump? We once did a big jump to get
away from the alligator, you know."

"Let's try it," said Bawly. "Then the people won't be disappointed. Come
on." So