FOUE-POOTED AMERICANS 



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IN THE PASTURE 



r was circus day down at East Village. 



Not the common circus, with a Lion, 



r^lephant, a cage or two of Monkeys, 



a fat clown turning somersaults, and 



a beautifid lady floating through 



) paper hoops, but a real American 



; yft^ circus — the Wild AVest Show, 



^^ • / "^f ^^'ith its scouts, frontiersmen, Bron- 



' '^•^^ Lsafe*«*»#^ ^^^' bucking Ponies, Indians, 



and Buffaloes. 

 Of course the House People at Orchard Farm made 

 a holiday and went down to see the show, giving many 

 different reasons for so doing. Dr. Hunter and JNIr. 

 Blake said it was their duty as patriotic Americans 

 to encourage native institutions, and Mrs. Blake said 

 that she must surely go to see that the young people 

 did not eat too many peanuts and i)opcorn balls. The 

 young people tliought that going to tlie circus was a 

 must be, unless one was ill, or had done sometliing very, 

 very wrong, that merited the severest sort of punish- 

 ment. iVIammy Bun, too, wlio liad been groaning 

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