"
"Well, we can easy do that," said Bunny. "Maybe the hired man will sell
peanuts and lemonade for us. I asked him if he would like to be in the
big circus, and he said he would. I asked him if he could do any acts."
"What'd he say?" Sue wanted to know, while the Italian balloon peddler
stood looking at the two children, as if wondering what they would do
next.
"Well, the hired man said all he could do was milk a cow, and plow up
the ground. He wanted to know if they were circus acts, and I said I
guessed not," replied Bunny. "So maybe he'd be glad to sell lemonade and
peanuts."
"I think he would," said Sue. "You needn't do anything except blow up
your balloons and sell 'em," she went on to the Italian. "Never mind
about the peanuts and the pink lemonade."
"Alla right," said the man, with a smile that showed what nice white
teeth he had. "Me sella de balloon!"
He and the children walked on a little longer. Then the man turned to
Bunny and asked:
"How much farder now--to de circus?"
"Not far now," said Bunny. "The circus isn't quite ready yet, but you
can stay at our grandpa's house until it is.
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