ny races?"

"There were races every day; but I didn't care to watch them," Henrietta
Hen answered.

"Did you see any elephants at the fair?" Spot demanded.

"Elephants?" said Henrietta Hen. "What are elephants?"

Spot pointed--with his nose--to one of the posters on the barn.

"There's a picture of some elephants," he told her. "And I must say it's
a good one."

"There were no elephants at the county fair," Henrietta Hen admitted as
she gazed at the circus poster on the side of the barn. "Why, every one
of them has two tails!" she cried. "I don't see how they know whether
they're going backward or forward."

"Maybe they don't know," Spot retorted. "Maybe that's part of the fun in
being an elephant. For I suppose there's fun of some sort in being
anybody, even a-a-a--"

"Even a _what?_" Henrietta snapped. "Were you going to say a _Hen?_"

"I was," Spot replied. "But I remembered that it wouldn't be polite."

"I should say not!" Henrietta Hen cackled. "I should say not!" And then,
being very angry, she hurried off to tell the rooster what had happened.

"I'll have to be careful how I talk to these farmyard folks," Spot
muttered. "They haven't had a chance to learn some of the things that I
know.

"For I've been to the village and seen the world--and the circus, too,"
added old dog Spot.

THE END

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Transcriber's notes:

The page numbers in the List of Illustrations do not reflect the new
placement of the illustrations, but are as in the original.

All errors from the original book were kept and are noted below.

Chapter XVII: Missing open quotation mark (And if they are, they're sure to
stumble upon that terrible creature at the door. I must warn them before
it's too late.")

Chapter VI: Additional "e" ("I was going to give you that old fishing
rod of mine if you'd help carry in the wood," Farmer Greene went on.)

Chapter XIII: Additional "r" (And after the third miss old Sport turned
tail and ran away.)

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