However, boys never fail to wake up early if there is a circus or some other great excitement to be enjoyed, so all of the Island boys were up and ready to start for Uncle Bill’s the moment breakfast was over.
He started a circus in the launch with all hands trying to catch him, and more than once, the boys very nearly fell into the water in their mad scramble to grab him.
Let's be off at once for the Circus of the Bergères.
As to you, be sure to attend at the Circus of the Bergères in the dusk.
Round a circus rose sloping basins where pigeons went to drink.
Pulling the little friar out of the ditch, I put him on his feet, and wished him to keep me company on my walk along the Saint Germain road to the Circus of the Bergères.
At the Red Horse hotel, at the Circus of the Bergères, you can have good horses, as well as all sorts of vehicles.
The advantage is that the Sablons is very near the Circusof the Bergères.
He helped to carry water for the circus men's horses, along with the boys who earned their admission that way.
He ran great risks, and if he escaped the vigilance of the massive circus man who patrolled the outside of the tent with a cow-hide and a bulldog, perhaps he merited the fame he was sure to win.
He had no need to do it, because his father was going to take him in, anyway; but Jim Leonard said it was the only way to get acquainted with the circus men.
The circus man thought a moment, and then he said: "How would double-somersaults on four horses bareback do?
Some of them that happened to think of it plagued him a little and asked how he liked being a circus actor.
By-and-by he began to be sleepy, and then he dozed off, but he thought it was hardly a minute before he heard the circus band, and knew that the procession was coming for him.
Pony himself could never be exactly sure whether he had waited on the front steps and seen the circus magician or not.
The other boys were proud to pass a word with them as they went by with their brimming buckets; fellows who had money to go in would have been glad to carry water just for the glory of coming close to the circus men.
They took him up between them, one by his arms and the other by the legs, and ran along with him, and kept saying, "Does it want to be a great big circus actor?
He got his bundle and stole down to the front door without seeming to touch his feet to anything, and when he got out on the front steps he saw the circus magician coming along.
In the big city they have the parade and the circus all in one big building, but in the country towns they have the parade first in the street, and the performance after, in the tents.
And that is just what they did, right into the circus ring where the man in the red cap held out big hoops of paper above the dogs' heads.
One of the circus men must have been sleepy that morning, for he hadn't fixed the lock on that cage just tight.
Certainly, be most pleased," was the answer, for all circus men are very polite on Circus Day.
Or perhaps he remembered one of thecircus ponies with the same name.
All the strange circus people laughed and cheered and the giant clapped his huge hands till they sounded like thunder.
For hadn't he been part of a circus and ridden on an elephant!
From their high perch they could look right over the heads of all the people at that great circus parade.
But the time came to say "Good-bye," which they did, to one and all of the kind circus people.
His tail was forked too, cut like the coat of the man in the circuswho cracked the whip and made the horses perform tricks.
His white tail curves beautifully like the plumes on the hats of the circus ladies.
The circuswould start in a minute now and all the fun would be over.
At first she concealed her escapades, but soon perceived that to combine the love of the church with the love of the circus was quite the fashion.
In taking away the circus from the people he's robbing them of their chief enjoyment, which is naturally sanguinary.
Don't miss the circus to-day," murmured another neighbour of Anatolius into the ear of his companion.
Anatolius saw panting multitudes running in the direction of the circus from every street, from every alley, from every basilica.
I can remember when he and I would go out to a vacant lot that he owned near Indianapolis and I would sit on the fence and watch him ride and perform circus tricks on horseback, riding around in a circle.
The hunchback excelled particularly in an imitation of a circus that was here not long since.
Part of the circus train, carrying the performers, was not damaged and that has gone on.
Did you hear anything from the circus people about the fat lady?
Let's make a lot of 'em, and have a circus with Snap, and charge money to see him, and then we can buy a lot of ice cream for our party!
But when Mrs. Bobbsey heard about the circusplans she decided it would make too much confusion.
We're going to have Snap do the circus trick of jumping through a paper hoop," explained Nan.
The circus went to Cuba soon after that, and has been traveling around that island ever since.
I'll read a little more," and he read: "When our circus was wrecked we lost a valuable trick dog.
The next day, having learned from the railroad company where the circus had gone after the wreck, Mr. Bobbsey sent a letter to the manager, explaining about the lost silver cup, and the found circus dog.
The wreck is a worse one than I thought at first, and some of the cars of the circus train are across the track so we can't get by.
They lengthened into a week, and still no news came from where the circus was: All the Bobbsey twins could hope was that their cat and cup were on the way, and that the man who owned Snap would consent to sell him.
If that circus had to be wrecked I wish it could have waited until our train passed.
And so the Bobbseys were on their way home in the train when the circus accident happened that brought them to a stop.
And still thecircus advanced, and the horse snorted and backed.
Even in the early spring, there had been several cases of fever at Sudleigh; and so, when the circus made application for a license to take possession of the town, according to olden custom, the public authorities very wisely refused.
It would not have a circus of its own, forsooth, but it would share in ours!
For one brief moment, we were ashamed of Lucindy's "shallerness" and irrelevancy; but the circus people interpreted her better.
In spite of the loss of this potential crop, however, Brad was magnanimously willing to let his field; and Tiverton held her head high, in the prospect of having a circus of her own.
Sudleigh itself, its young men and maidens, old men and children, was following the circus into our town.
We had seen the circus at Sudleigh, as I have said, yet the fact of entertaining it within our borders made it seem exactly as if we had never laid eyes upon it before.
There was a circus showing in our town and a number of us proposed to attend it.
Here was a boy who had started into a circus tent in a circumspect, indeed, a highly cautious manner, and then finished the trip with undue and sudden precipitancy.
We followed the parade out to the circus grounds and hung around until the show began and the crowd went inside the tent.
Finsbury Circus and the land round it, formed the favourite summer lounge of the London citizens up to the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Before the second day of the First Division's landing, there was a circus banner across the foot of the main street stating: "This is the way to the Y.
Those first days at training-camp, before the body of the troops arrived, were circus enough for anybody.
The circus elephant is not expected to make a speech.
In merely travelling from circus to circus he would, so to speak, move in rather narrow circles.
I s'pose you go into the circus whenever you want to, don't you?
Mr. Job Lord lifted the poor boy entirely clear of the ground, and each blow that he struck could be heard almost the entire length of the circus train.
Yes, he is, an' he's the only one in this whole circus who 'pears to be sorry for me.
There was a great big sigh from out Toby's little round stomach, as he thought what bliss it must be to own all those good things, and to see the circus wherever it went.
The boys took this as an answer to their question, and felt perfectly convinced that the agility of circus riders and tumblers depended upon the quantity of frogs eaten, and they looked upon Toby with no little degree of awe.
The coming of a circus to the little town of Guilford was an event, and Toby had hardly thought of anything else since the highly colored posters had first been put up.
Eighteen miles was the distance from Guilford to the town where the next performance of the circus was to be given, and as Toby thought of the ride before them it seemed as if the time would be almost interminable.
It appeared to the boy as if every one was unusually kind to him that night, and, feeling sad at leaving those in the circus who had befriended him, Toby was unusually attentive to every one around him.
They had gone to the circus with him, had gone coasting, and had hunted birds with a camera to take pictures of them.
It was an impressive, rich, interminable circus on a grand scale, full of action and color in the beauty of the day, under the clear sun and moderate breeze.
There were very good circus performances, or horsemanship, in New York and Brooklyn.
The periodical festivals of the Romans were celebrated with theatrical entertainments and sports in the circus at the public expense.
He commenced those vaulted sewers which still attract the admiration of posterity; he erected the first circus for the exhibition of public spectacles; he planned the Capitol, and commenced, if he did not complete, the first city wall.
Bundy began reading the advertisement of the circus and menageries and a conversation ensued concerning the wonderful performances of the trained animals.
The whole scene reminded Tom vaguely of the hasty, quiet picking up and departure of the circus in the night which, as a little boy, he had sat up to watch.
What d'ye say, youngster, to being blacked up, and singing this evening to the circus along o' our minstrel troupe?
Duval, the "incomparable gymnast," and a host of other circus celebrities.
On another occasion she took all her girls to a private box at a Chinese circus, where men and women acrobats and horseback riders performed in a ring not unlike that of our own circus riders.
He straightway became so jealous at the thought that I would have an opportunity to witness the circus performance free that he told his mother, and that good woman promptly laid the whole matter before my father.
It was in this memorable year that a circus came to Washington, D.
