Mr. Maynard smiled. "That's exactly what you would do if I left you here by yourselves! So what do you think of this plan? As we shall be gone all the afternoon, I think I will let Pompton take you four infants to the circus."
"Oh, goody, goody!" cried Marjorie. "That will be perfectly gorgeous!
King, won't it be fine to go to the circus?"
"Yes, indeed! And it's a big circus,—I saw the posters yesterday on our way here."
"There are lovely wild animals!" said Kitty, ecstatically. "I saw pictures of lions and tigers,—terrific ones!"
"Me loves tigers," commented Rosy Posy. "They eat peoples all up!"
"These don't," said Kitty. "They're trained ones, and they do tricks.
Why, the man who trains them puts his hand right in their mouths!"
"Ugh!" said Marjorie, with a shudder. "I don't like that part of it. I wish they didn't have the wild beasts. I like the people who swing on a long swing,—"
"Trapeze," said her father.
"Yes, a trapeze; and they swing and catch each other by the feet. Oh, I love to see them!"
"So do I," said Kitty. "I love it all,—but I love the tigers best."