And, finally, with all the boys and the dog and Bunny Brown pulling and tugging, they got the tent out of the water.  It was still all twisted and tangled, but now that it was on shore it was easier to make smooth.

“We’ll have to get a wagon to haul it back to the meadow where we are going to set it up again,” said Bunker.

“My grandpa will let us take a horse and wagon,” said Bunny.  “He wants to see the circus.”

“I guess we’ll have to give him a free ticket if he lets us take a horse and wagon to haul the tent,” said Ben with a laugh.  “You’ve a good grandpa, Bunny Brown.”

“Yep.  I like him, and so does Sue,” said the little fellow.

Grandpa Brown very kindly said he would go down to the river himself, in his wagon, and help the boys bring up the tent.  He did this, and he also helped them set it up again.  This time they put the two circus tents farther back from the brook.

“Then if it rains again, and the water gets high and makes a flood, it won’t wash away the tents,” said Bunker Blue.

“When is the show going to be?” asked Sue.  She was anxious to see it, and she and Bunny were waiting for the time when they could let their secret become known.  For they had told no one yet.

“Oh, we’ll have to wait a few days now, before having the circus,” said Ben.  “The tents are all wet, and we want them to dry out.  Then we’ve got to make the seats all over again, because the flood carried them away.  I guess we can’t have the show until next week.”

There was much more work to be done because the flood had come and spoiled everything.  But, after all, it did not matter much, and the boys set to work with jolly laughs to get the circus ready again.

Bunny and Sue helped all they could, and the older boys were glad to have the children with them, because both Bunny and Sue were so good-natured, and said such funny things, at times, that it made the others laugh.

The seats for the circus were made of boards, laid across boxes, just as Bunny and Sue had made theirs when they gave their first Punch and Judy show in their barn at home.

There were seats all around the outer edge inside the big fair tent.  It was in this one that the real “show” was to be given.  Here the big boys would swing on trapezes, have foot and wheelbarrow races, ride horses and do all sorts of tricks.

“The people will sit here and watch us do our funny things,” said Ben.  “We’re going to have clowns, and everything.”

“And what’s going to be in the little tent—­the army one grandpa let you take?” asked Bunny.

“Oh, that’s for the wild animals,” said Bunker Blue.

“Are you going to have our dog Splash striped like a blue tiger again?” asked Sue.

“No, I think we’ll have some different wild animals this time,” said Ben.  “There’ll be some surprises at our show.”

“Oh, I wish it were time now!” cried Sue.