"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.