ed them the small
wooden enclosure with six hard chairs in it.

"Perfectly splendid!" agreed Kitty. "And we can have this extra chair for
our wraps and things."

So with great content they settled in their places to watch the circus.

It began, as circuses usually do, with the chariot races, and these were
Marjorie's especial delight. She had been to the circus several times,
and she always enjoyed the classic-looking ladies who drove tumultuous
horses, while they stood in gorgeously painted but very rattle-te-bang
chariots.

"I should think they'd fall out behind," commented Kitty.

"They would if the horses stopped suddenly," said King.

"No, they wouldn't," said Marjorie. "If the horses stopped, they'd pitch
over the dashboard; but the horses aren't going to stop! Oh, there comes
the blue one again! Isn't she a dandy? King, I'd love to drive one of
those chariots!"

"Don't you try it on now. Miss Marjorie," said Pompton, on hearing this
speech.

"Of course, I won't, Pomp," said Marjorie, laughing. "I only said I'd
like to. Oh, now that's all over, and they're going to have the ladies
and gentlemen who ride tip-toe on their horses. I think I like that next
best to the trapeze people."

"I like it all," said contented little Kitty, whose nature it was to take
things as they came.

Fascinated, they all watched the bare-back riding, and after that the
acrobats, and then the trapeze performers.

"Wow! but they're wonders!" exclaimed King, as the trapezists swayed
through the air, and caught flying rings or swings, and seemed every
time to escape missing them only by a hairs-breadth. But they always
caught them, and swung smilingly back, as if living up in the air were
quite as pleasant as walking about on the ground.

"Oh, I'd like to do that!" cried Marjorie, as with sparkling eyes she
watched a young girl do a swinging specialty.

King laughed. "You'd like to do lots of these stunts, Midget, but let me
advise you if you're ever a circus performer, don't try trapeze work;
you're too heavy. When you came down, you'd go smash through the net! If
you must be in a circus, you'd better stick to your chariot driving."

"Now the trapeze number is over," said Kitty, looking at her programme,
"and next will be the wild animals! I do love to see those."

"And I don't," said Marjorie, with a shudder. It was not exactly fear,
but the child had a special aversion to watching the feats of trained
wild animals, and h