But Bunny fell in a soft place, and as a saw-horse is only made of wood, like a rocking horse, it did not kick, or step on, the little boy.  So everything was all right.

The performing part of the circus came to an end with a “grand concert.”  Bunny, Sue and all the others stood in line and sang a song, while Bunker Blue played on the mouth organ, and Ben on the paper-covered comb.

“And now you are all invited to come and see the wild animals!” called Bunny.  “Senorita Mozara will show you the blue striped tiger that does tricks.  Senorita Mozara is my sister Sue,” he explained, “but wild animal trainers all have fancy names, so I made that one up for her.”

Everyone laughed at that.

“Right this way, ladies and gentlemen, to see the wild animals!” cried Sue.  Ben Hall had told her what the circus men said, and Sue tried, in her childish voice, to do it as nearly like them as possible.  “Right this way!” she cried.  “You will see the blue-striped tiger—­of course it’s only our dog Splash, and he won’t hurt you,” said Sue quickly, as she saw some of the little children hanging back.

“He will eat meat from my hand, and stand up on his hind legs.  He will lie down and roll over.  This way, everybody!”

Splash did look funny, all striped with bluing as he was.  But he did the tricks for Sue, and everyone thought it was a very nice part of the circus.

“Over this way is the striped zebra,” went on Sue, as she led the way to where the green-painted calf was shut in a little pen.  The men, women and children were laughing at the queer animal, when something happened.

Splash got out of his cage.  Either some one opened the door, or Splash pushed it open.  And as Splash bounded out he knocked over the cage where the turkey gobbler “elephant” was kept.

“Gobble-obble-obble!” went the turkey, as it flew across the barn.  Children screamed, and some of them backed up against the cage of roosters, so it broke open and the crowing roosters were loose.

“Baaa-a-a-a!” went the green striped calf, and giving a big jump, out of the box it came, and began running around, upsetting both Bunny and Sue.

“Oh, the wild animals are loose!  The wild animals are loose!” cried a little girl, while the big folks laughed so hard that they had to sit down on boxes, wheelbarrows, boards or whatever they could find.  It was very funny.

CHAPTER XIV

BUNNY AND SUE GO SAILING

Certainly all the animals in the circus which Bunny and Sue had gotten up, were loose, though of course they were not exactly “wild” animals.  The green-striped calf was wild enough when it came to running around and kicking up its heels, but then calves do that anyhow, whether they are striped like a zebra or not, so that doesn’t count.

“Look out!  Look out, everybody!” cried Bunny Brown.  For, just then, the calf, having run to one end of the barn and finding the doors there closed, had run back again, and was heading straight for the place where they were all standing.