“I wish we could have a club,” replied Eva in a serious tone. “But no! All we do is work, work, work.”
Now that Veve and Connie were getting fairly well acquainted with the little circus girl they liked her much better than they had at first. She did not act as know-it-all as she had at Rosedale.
“What do you want to see now?” asked Eva.
“Could we look at the elephants?” Veve requested.
“Of course. I think the elephants are the most interesting part of the circus myself. They’re one of the smartest animals in the world.”
The elephants had been chained to heavy iron stakes now that their morning’s work was done. An attendant had just given them their ration of hay.
Veve and Connie laughed aloud as they watched the elephants swish it up with their long, snaky trunks.
“That big fellow over there is Old Sal,” said Eva. She pointed to an elephant with a very wrinkled skin. “You should see her boss the others around.”
“And do they really obey her?” asked Veve.
“They have to,” answered Eva. “When they don’t, she beats them hard with her trunk. That makes them come to time right away.”