It was a real bully
circus. It was the splendidest sight that ever was when they all come riding in, two and two, a gentleman and lady, side by side, the men just in their drawers and undershirts, and no shoes nor stirrups, and resting their hands on their thighs easy and comfortable -- there must a been twenty of them -- and every lady with a lovely complexion, and per- fectly beautiful, and looking just like a gang of real sure-enough queens, and dressed in clothes that cost millions of dollars, and just littered with diamonds.
So the Doctor went to the crocodile and told him he must go back to his
circus. But he wept such big tears, and begged so hard to be allowed to stay, that the Doctor hadn't the heart to turn him out.
'You know, as well as I do, no young people have
circus masters, or keep circuses in cabinets, or attend lectures about circuses.
Snakes!--with their forked tongues, their beady eyes and glittering scales, their hissing and their rattling--did I not already know them far too well on that day of my first
circus when I saw the snake-charmer lift them up?
We marched comfortably along, through glades and over brooks which I could not remember to have seen before -- which puzzled me and made me wonder -- and yet we did not come to any
circus or sign of a
circus.
Pinocchio went to the owner of a
circus, who wanted to teach him to do tricks for his audiences.
You'll never hear the last of your
circus, cousin."
She walked up again towards the
Circus. Philip was puzzled.
"I go up in a balloon, usually, to draw the crowds to the
circus. But I've just had the bad luck to come out of the sky, skip the solid earth, and land lower down than I intended.
We bound it between pasteboards, which I covered with brilliant calico, representing scenes from a
circus. For two days I sat at the dining-room table, pasting this book full of pictures for Yulka.
"Just like the knife thrower Mark saw at the
circus. I wish there was a long, long row of houses each with a corn husk mat and a screen door in the middle, and a newspaper to throw on every one!"
On the sidewalk at the side of Winney's Dry Goods Store where there was a high board fence covered with
circus pictures, he stopped whistling and stood perfectly still in the darkness, attentive, listening as though for a voice calling his name.