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know that Inger Johanne meant to go away
with the circus. I would wait till the very last
day it was in tovvn before I asked the fat dark
lady, who Avas the director’s wife, if I might go.
Of course I knew her now.
And I must say good-bye to Father and
Mother and my brothers and sister, or I
couldn’t bear it. I wouldn’t stay away
forever, no, far from it, only a little while, until
I was a perfectly splendid performer.
All at once it occurred to me that I ought to
practise a little on horseback before I offered
myself to the circus troupe. I ought at least
to knoAv what it Avas like to sit on a horse.
There certainly couldn’t be any better
op-portunity than there Avas iioav, when our Avhole
barn AA^as full of horses. But I must take
Karsten into my confidence; he would have to
help me to climb through a hole in the back of
the barn, for the grooms ahvays fastened the
barn door Avhen they Avent aAvay. At noon
there Avas never anv one up there, so I planned
to crawl in then and practice getting on and off
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