"I'll have some hay under me, too, so if I slip I won't be hurt," he said.
Indeed, if it had not been for the big piles of soft hay in grandpa's barn I don't know what the little circus performers would have done.
While the boys were practising the things they were going to do, Sue and her little girl friends made up a little act of their own.
Each one had a doll, and they practised a little song which they had sung in school. It was about putting the dollies to sleep in a cat's cradle, and a little mouse came in and awakened them, and then they went out to gather flowers for the honey bees.
Just a simple little song, but Sue and her friends sung it very nicely.
"And I know something else you can do, Sue, besides being a keeper of wild animals," said Bunny.
"What?" asked his sister.
"You can ride in the wheelbarrow and drive Ned and Tom for your horses—make-believe, you know."
"But I don't want to be upset, even on the hay!" Sue said.
"No, we won't upset you," promised Ned.