The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-08-22
Your loving niece.
CLARA STEVENSON.
How the Circus Came.


Jack. and Dorothy y ere very sad. The
reason was that the circus was coming
TO Globeyille and they could not go.
They could not even go to see the street
parade in the morning. Jack and Do
rothy lived out in the country. Their
father was dead. and they were very
poor. There was a mortgage on the
farm and their mother told them she
could not spare the money to let them
go, because if they did not save every
cent they might lose their home.
Jack and Dorothy were willing to
give up going to the circus but they
did feel that it was hard that it had to
come in strawberry time. All the farm
ers round about raised Strawberries.
and there was a cannery which bought
all they raised. The berries were just
ripe now, and Jack and Dorothy could
each make dollar a day picking them.
They began as soon as it was light in
the morning and picked till it was too
dark to see any longer 1t made them
very tired STOPPING over in the hot sun
all day, but a dollar a day is a good
deal of money for such little girl and
boy 10 earn, and they were glad to get
it. If they went TO Globeville to see the
parade it would take half a days
wages from each, and that would mean
a dollar lost
Their mother felt as bad over it as
they did. She told them just how 1T
was. and then said that they should
settle it themselves. Jack and Dorothy
talked it over that evening out behind
the barn. and decided that they could
not afford to go. They cried a little
over it, but they wiped away their tears
before they went m to tell their moth
er. They thought she would not notice
that they had been crying, but she did,
and after they had gone to bed she
cried a little too
Jack had a very strange dream. He
thought he was in a great forest. and
that he could hear all the animals in
the world. each making his own par
ticular kind of noise. The lions roared,
the elephants trumpeted the camels
bTayed and the psnthers screeched. 1t
seemed to Jack that he was wander
ing in this forest for hours and hours.
The noises grew louder and louder and
nearer and nearer till suddenly Jack
woke with a start He thought for a
moment that he was still in the forest,
for there were all the noises he had
heard, mixed with the voices of men
shouting. He leaped from his bed and
ran to the window. There, in lie
bright moonlight were elephants and
camels, horses and dogs, and great red
wagons. pouring through the big gate
into their yard.
Dorothy, Dorothy he shrieked,
wildly. and in another instant the chill
dren were tearing madly into their
clothes and rushing barefoot down
stairs. Their mother was already UP
and calling them, and she told them
that it was the circus on its way to
Globeville, which had stopped to water
the animals at their well.
1t took more than an hour to water
all the animals. The elephants had to
have the washtub to drink out Of and
they sucked up a tubful of water at
one gulp The doors of the big wagons
were. opened, and the children saw the
men water the lions and tigers and just
as Jack had heard him in his dream
A little pony found a pail of milk that
had been set out for the chickens, and
drank it all up. Then he stood up on
his hind legs and begged. He was a
trick pony.
Jack and Dorothy ran here and there,
bringing pals TO water the animals
and cups for the men to drink from.
So at last a good-natured man said:
Those little chaps have worked
hard. Give them a ride"
Then a keeper called the children
over to the biggest elephant and said:
Stand quiet now, and don't be afraid.
He won't hurt you"
Then he spoke to the elephant, and
the elephant softly ana gently put its
trunk around first Jack and then Do
rothy, and lifted them both on to it's
own great back
Hang on now" said the man, and
then he led the elephant all around the
yard.
Then they all went away, and Jack
and Dorothy could hear the noise for
a long, long time down the GIobeville
road.
ooh, mamma" said Dorothy. I'VE
couldn't go to the circus, and so the
circus came to u.s.