FOUR-FOOTED AMERICANS 



IN THE PASTURE 



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r^ \\-as circus day down at East Village. 

 ;.-'"* Not the common circus, with a Lion, 

 4;, I'^lephant, a cage or two of JNIonkej's, 

 . ''■ ii fat clown turning somersaults, and 

 a beautiful lady floating tlirough 

 paper hoops, but a real American 

 circus — the Wild ^^^est Show, 

 with its scouts, frontiersmen. Bron- 

 cos, 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. Hxmter and Air. 

 Blake said it was their dut}^ 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 popcorn balls. The 

 young people thought that going to the circus was a 

 must he, unless one was ill, or had done something very, 

 very wrong, that merited the severest sort of punish- 

 ment. Mammy Bun, too, who had been groaning 



