"Oh, I guess so; yes. The stripes haven't worn off him yet, and they won't for some time. So you might as well play with him."
"We don't want to play with him," Bunny explained. "He—he jumps about too much. We just want to put him in a cage and make believe he is a wild animal."
"Like a ockstritch," added Sue. The ostrich seemed to be her favorite.
"An ostrich isn't an animal," carefully explained Bunny. "It's a big bird, and it hides its head in the sand, and they pull out its tail feathers for ladies' hats."
"Well, it's wild, anyhow," said Sue.
"Yes, it's wild," admitted Bunny.
Grandpa Brown showed the children two tame roosters, that would let Bunny and Sue stroke their glossy feathers.
"You may put them in a box, and make believe they are any sort of wild bird or animal you like," said the farmer.
The children promised to be kind to the roosters. They did not put them in cages that day, as it was too soon.
That afternoon Tom White, Nellie Bruce, Jimmie Kenny, Sallie Smith and Ned Johnson came over to see Bunny and Sue. They all went out to the barn, and there they got ready for the circus. Bunny and Sue, as well as the other children, were to be dressed up in funny clothes, which their mothers said they would make for them.