"Well, I suppose I could put off my fishing till another day," said Uncle Tad slowly. "Are you sure you two want to go?"
"Are we!" cried Bunny.
"Oh, I want to go—so much!" and Sue showed just how much by putting her arms around Uncle Tad's neck and hugging him as hard as she could. That was her way of showing "how much."
"Well, if it's as much as that I guess I'll have to take you," laughed Uncle Tad. "Mind you, I don't want to go myself," and he looked at Mrs. Brown in a queer way. "I don't care anything about a circus—never did in fact. But if an old man has to give up his fishing trip, just to take two children to one of the wild animal shows, why I guess it will have to be done, that's all. But really I don't want to go," and he shook his head very seriously.
"Oh, Uncle Tad!" cried Sue. "Don't you want to see the elephants?"
"Nope," and the old soldier kept on shaking his head "crossways," as Bunny said.
"And don't you want to see the lions?"
"Nope."
"Nor the tigers?"
"Nope."