So they all just stared in amazement. But presently there were some queer movements about the middle of the human structure, and a smothered voice seemed to proceed from its stomach. Then there was an unmistakable "Get out!" a response of "You did that on purpose," and the Giant suddenly broke in two, while the halves took to hitting each other. The tent was dragged down with him; the children screamed, and everybody scrambled. But when they got out from the sheets and quilts, they all began to laugh, even the two pieces of the Giant, Rufe and Harry, who had found it more uncomfortable to be one than they expected.
Just at this time Miss Fanny arrived, and as soon as she saw San, she said, "And where is my reserved seat, young man?"
"That is all right," was the smiling reply; "nobody hasn't sat in it."
"Ladies and gentlemen," said Rufus, coming forward with a very handsome bow, "the circus is over."
"That is very evident," replied Miss Fanny, laughing with the others; and San considered it quite a compliment that she said it was the funniest circus she ever saw.
Nobody could have been so unfeeling as to remark she hadn't seen it at all.
[THE WAVES AT WORK.]
BY CHARLES BARNARD.
Were you ever down by the beach when the wind was blowing in from the open sea? Did you see the white-caps? Did you see the surf as one great green wave after the other came marching in, and fell over with a magnificent roar on the beach, while the salt spray filled all the air with briny fragrance? If you have seen these splendid sights, you remember how the waves seemed to march along in a great procession before the strong wind. Strange sights are these, yet the way in which the wind starts the waves and keeps them moving is stranger still.