“Well,” says Jenny, “but until the house is built?”
“It is always warm there. The ‘Grizzly Killer’ says it is very warm.”
Jenny begins to swing her feet more lively, as if the warmth there has settled the question in her mind; but shortly she remembers that she has in the circus a dog and a cat, and that she would like to take them with her. She calls her dog Mister Dog and her cat Mister Cat.
“And will Mr. Dog and Mr. Cat go with us?”
“They will,” answers Orso, looking pleased.
“Will we take with us the ‘good book’?”
“We will,” says Orso, still more pleased.
“Well,” says the girl in her innocence, “Mr. Cat will catch birds for us; Mr. Dog will drive away bad people with his bark; you will be my husband and I will be your wife, and they will be our children.”
Orso feels so happy that he cannot speak, and Jenny continues:
“There, there will be no Mr. Hirsch, no circus, we will not work, and basta! But no!” she adds a moment later, “the ‘good book’ says that we should work, and I sometimes will jump through one—through the two hoops, the three, the four hoops.”