he knocked over the cage where
the turkey gobbler "elephant" was kept.
"Gobble-obble-obble!" went the turkey, as it flew across the barn.
Children screamed, and some of them backed up against the cage of
roosters, so it broke open and the crowing roosters were loose.
"Baaa-a-a-a!" went the green striped calf, and giving a big jump, out of
the box it came, and began running around, upsetting both Bunny and Sue.
"Oh, the wild animals are loose! The wild animals are loose!" cried a
little girl, while the big folks laughed so hard that they had to sit
down on boxes, wheelbarrows, boards or whatever they could find. It was
very funny.
CHAPTER XIV
BUNNY AND SUE GO SAILING
Certainly all the animals in the circus which Bunny and Sue had gotten
up, were loose, though of course they were not exactly "wild" animals.
The green-striped calf was wild enough when it came to running around
and kicking up its heels, but then calves do that anyhow, whether they
are striped like a zebra or not, so that doesn't count.
"Look out! Look out, everybody!" cried Bunny Brown. For, just then, the
calf, having run to one end of the barn and finding the doors there
closed, had run back again, and was heading straight for the place where
they were all standing.
"Somebody catch him!" cried Ben Hall.
"It would take a cowboy to do that," spoke up Bunker Blue. "A cowboy
with a lasso!"
"I'll catch him! I'll get him!" cried Bunny. "I had a lasso that I was
trying to catch the old rooster with. I'll lasso the calf!"
"No, little man. You'll not do anything of the sort!" exclaimed Mr.
Brown, catching his son up in his arms. "You'd better stay away from
that calf. It would not mean to hurt you, perhaps, but it might knock
you down and step on you."
The calf was now running back and forth, bleating and looking for some
place where it could get out of the barn. For it did not like being in a
circus, though, at first, it had been quiet enough.
Splash thought it was great fun. He ran here and there, barking loudly,
and racing after the calf. The two roosters were crowing as loudly as
they could, fluttering here, there, everywhere. One nearly perched on
top of Grandma Brown's head.
The horses could be heard neighing and stamping about in their stalls.
Perhaps they, too, wanted to join in the fun.
"Oh, dear!" cried Sue. "I don't like this. Let's go out, Bunny."
But with the calf running back and forth in the barn, crossin
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