"But I guess I will go and ask your
grandmother for something to eat. I'm terribly hungry!"
Holding the hands of Bunny Brown and his sister Sue, Ben, the strange
boy, who had been so queerly found under the straw in the tent, walked
toward grandpa's house.
"Well land sakes! Where'd you come from?" asked Grandma Brown, as she
saw him. "And such a looking sight! You look as if you'd slept in a barn
all night!"
"I did--almost," said Ben, smiling.
"Well, come in and get that clown suit off you," said Mrs. Brown. "Then
tell us all about it. What made you run away?"
"I was afraid that man would get me," said Ben.
"Why should he want to get you?" asked Daddy Brown.
"Because I ran away from his circus where I used to do tricks," Ben
answered. "That's my secret. I used to be a regular circus performer,
but I couldn't stand it any longer, and I ran away. I didn't want you to
know it, so I didn't tell you. But that man, who came into the tent when
I was doing the same jump I used to do in the regular circus--that man
knew me. I thought he had come to take me back, and I didn't want to go.
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