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you never saw. At last the performance
began.
But to describe what goes on at a circus, tliat
I won’t do. About ordinary things, such as
are happening every day at home, I can write
very well, as you know, but anything so
magnificent as that circus I can’t describe.
I was nearly out of my wits, people said
afterwards. I stood up on the seat—those
behind me were angry, but that didn’t bother
me at all—clapped my bands and shouted
“ Bravo! ” and “ Hurrah! ” Towards the last
the riders, when they came in, gave me a special
salute in that elegant way, you know, holding
up their whips before one eye. I liked that
awfully well. I was fairly beside myself with
joy.
Well, now I knew what I wanted to be: I
wanted to be a circus-rider! For that was the
grandest and jolliest thing in the whole world.
Did you ever feel about yourself that you were
going to be something great, something more
than every one else, as if you stood on a high
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