“We buy a hundred and seventy loaves of bread a day,” said Eva. She spoke as if she did the ordering herself. “And we bake nearly that many pies.”
Stacked outside the tent were many unopened crates of fruit and vegetables. Connie and Veve saw oranges, grapefruit, apples and even strawberries.
Next, the little circus girl led her companions to the butcher shop. Entire quarters of beeves were lying on long wooden tables. Men in white aprons chopped off huge steaks and tossed them into cooking pans.
“My, wouldn’t the Brownies like to see this?” murmured Connie. “I wonder if they know yet where we are?”
Although she and Veve had been told that a telegram had been sent to Shady Hollow Camp, as yet no reply had been received.
After seeing the butcher shop, the three girls wandered about the lot. Eva introduced her friends to several other circus boys and girls.
However, few of the children had time to talk for more than a few minutes. All of them seemed to have work to do. Two boys were practicing on the trampoline, a taut canvas which tossed them into the air when they sprang from it.
Over and over the boys would practice backward and forward somersaults.
“Want to see Sniff, our dog, do it too?” one of the boys asked. “He’s better than we are.”
Whey they dropped Sniff on the canvas, he leaped into the air and turned several somersaults backwards.