His little heart went pitter-pat,
For the excitement was in tents.
—Harvard Lampoon.
A child of strict parents, whose greatest joy had hitherto been the weekly prayer-meeting, was taken by its nurse to the circus for the first time. When he came home he exclaimed:
"Oh, Mama, if you once went to the circus you'd never, never go to a prayer-meeting again in all your life."
Johnny, who had been to the circus, was telling his teacher about the wonderful things he had seen.
"An' teacher," he cried, "they had one big animal they called the hip—hip—
"Hippopotamus, dear," prompted the teacher.