"Well, you ain't," said Danny. "You're down there breathing the dust we
make."
"There's the house!" cried Jerry.
"Which one?" asked Whiteface from his seat on the elephant's head.
"The one with the paint all wore off," Danny explained.
"There's Nora and Celia Jane!" cried Chris.
"I see them!" Jerry exclaimed and called his mother's attention to them.
They were standing by the gate, watching the strange procession
approach.
"Hello, Celia Jane! I'm ridin' on a el'funt!" Jerry cried shrilly to
make her hear.
Celia Jane both heard and saw and she seemed glued to the gate-post with
surprise. Her mouth opened as though she were going to speak and
remained open, without a word coming out. Nora turned and fled into the
house crying:
"Mother! Mother! Jerry's ridin' by on a el'funt from the circus!"
A moment later the keeper halted Sultana in front of the gate, and that
fact unglued Celia Jane from the gate-post and caused words at last to
flow from her opened mouth.
"Mother! They're stoppin' here!" she cried, in turn running to the
house.
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