where?" asked Bawly's mother, wondering if the alligator were after
her son.

"Oh, do please let us go!" cried Bully, hopping in after his brother.
Bully tried to stand on his head, but his foot slipped and he nearly
fell into the ink bottle. "Please let us go, mother?"

"Where? Where?" she asked again, as Bawly hopped out of her lap.

"To the circus!" cried Bully.

"It's coming!" exclaimed Bawly.

"Down in the vacant lots," went on Bully.

"Oh, you ought to see the posters! Lions and tigers and elephants, and
men jumping in the air, and horses and--and--"

Bawly had to stop for breath then, and so he couldn't say any more.
Neither could Bully. Oh, but they were excited, let me tell you.

"May we go?" they both cried out again.

"Well, I'll see," began their mother slowly. "I don't know--"

"Oh, I guess you'd better let them go," spoke up Grandpa Croaker in his
deepest, rumbling voice. "I--I think I can spare the time to look after
them. I don't really want to go, you know, as I was going to play a game
of checkers with Uncle Wiggily Longears, but I guess I can take the boys
to the circus. Ahem!"

"Oh, goody!" cried Bawly, jumping up and down.

"Where are you going?" asked their papa, just then coming in from the
wallpaper factory.

"To the circus," said Bawly. "Grandpa Croaker will take us."

"Ha! Hum!" exclaimed Papa No-Tail. "I am very busy, but I guess I can
spare the time to take you. We won't bother Grandpa."

"Oh, it's no bother--none at all, I assure you," quickly spoke the
grandpa frog, in a thundering, rumbling voice. "We can both take them."

"Well, I never heard of such a thing!" exclaimed Mamma No-Tail. "Any one
would think you two old men frogs wanted to go as much as the boys do.
But I guess it will be all right."

So Bully and Bawly and their papa and their grandpa went to the circus
next day. And what do you think? Just as they were buying their tickets
if they didn't meet Uncle Wiggily Longears! And he had Sammie and Susie,
the rabbits, with him, and there was Aunt Lettie, the old lady goat,
with the three Wibblewobble children, and many other little friends of
Bully and Bawly.

Well, that was a fine circus! There were lots of tents with flags on,
and outside were men selling pink lemonade and peanuts for the elephant,
and toy balloons, only those weren't for the elephant, you know, and
there were men shouting, and lots of excitement, and there was a side
show, with pictures outs