[“Oh, that’s all right,” said the bear kindly. “Hide as much as you like.”]
“I don’t either,” said Blackie, looking at Tum Tum, who was eating a bag of peanuts given him by a little girl.
Then Dido told about some of his adventures, which I have already set down in a book with his name on it, just as those about Don, the runaway dog, are in his book. Dido told Blackie many things about the circus, too. And finally the black cat said:
“Well, Dido, I am very glad to have met you, and I thank you for letting me hide in the straw of your cage. But now I think I will go on, if those bad boys are not around. I’ll look out and see.”
CHAPTER IX
BLACKIE MEETS DON
Blackie scrambled down out of the cage of Dido, the dancing bear, ran between the legs of Tum Tum, the jolly elephant, who called to her in his big, kind, trumpety voice, and then stuck her head out under the circus tent.
“Is everything all right?” asked Dido, who soon was to go in the ring and perform his tricks with his master.