Jim and little Billy licked my face, and Bella croaked out,
"Glad to see you, Joe. Had a good time? How's your health?"
We soon settled down for the winter. Miss Laura began going to school,
and came home every day with a pile of books under her arm. The summer
in the country had done her so much good that her mother often looked at
her fondly, and said the white-faced child she sent away had come home a
nut-brown maid.
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CHAPTER XXXIII
PERFORMING ANIMALS
A week or two after we got home, I heard the Morris boys talking about
an Italian who was coming to Fairport with a troupe of trained animals,
and I could see for myself, whenever I went to town, great flaming
pictures on the fences, of monkeys sitting at tables, dogs, and ponies,
and goats climbing ladders, and rolling balls, and doing various tricks.
I wondered very much whether they would be able to do all those
extraordinary things, but it turned out that they did.
The Italian's name was Bellini, and one afternoon the whole Morris
family went to see him and his animals, and when they came home, I heard
them talking about it.
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