YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



be singing sonorous slumber songs again, 

 long hours before she herself could win the 

 soothing but elusive presence of the drowsy 

 god. 



As for Babe, he'd got to get a few hours 

 solid sleep, he said to himself, for whether he 

 had seen the big picture posters on the bill- 

 boards and fences, and taken it all in, papa 

 and mamma never knew, but they needn't 

 think he'd been spending this particular 

 night in that tame old city park, hearing the 

 band play ' Shoo fly ! don't bodder me ! ' 

 He'd had business, mighty business, on hand 



Barnum's Circus was coming to town! 



He would have a surprise for them in the 

 morning, for hadn't he been down to the 

 freight-house half the night his own self, 

 unloading the whole menagerie ? Hadn't 

 he got to be up and off betimes in the morn- 

 ing, to get hold of the line of march and 

 arrange the procession? So he slept and 

 snored. 



And the next morning he did surprise, not 

 only papa and mamma, but everybody else. 

 The great Barnum's Circus was going to 

 pass papa's office in its line of march. 

 Whether Babe connived at this we never 

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