| Show ing inga fairy a y Tal ra l' l Donner Bonner IP ea rp w FINE JUMPS For weeks and weeks beforehand the grasshoppers had hatI been planning their tricks and practicing them over oyer and over oyer again They had hatI planned you ou see to have ha havea haea a circus and they had Invited the fairies to come and see It The fairies were so pleased at being Invited In that they really didn't even care just what the grasshoppers actually actually ac ac- ac- ac did for they knew the grass- grass 1 11 1 be 1 d n Ind 1 opper uc boo anyway nuJ the they thought It was quite enough that such interesting creatures were giving giving ing It Well V ell the day arrived and all the fairies were escorted to their benches on the lawns The benches were made of pine pineneedles pineneedles pineneedles needles and antI the fairies thought the grasshoppers were vcr very hard hartI workers workers workers work work- ers to have ha carried the thc pine needles from the woods to the lawns Just for tor them First of ot all came the circus parade parade- for tor en e the grasshoppers knew that they must have ha a parade first There w was s the grasshoppers' grasshoppers band It was especially funny tunny About fifty grasshoppers pla played ed on blades of grass the the music sounded like whistling but it was quite a new kind of music and antI the fairies enjo enjoyed ed it Besides a number of ot other grasshoppers grasshoppers grasshoppers grass grass- hoppers sang funny songs while the parade was going on There were the grasshopper clowns How Dow funny they the did look They went around doing all sorts of ot regular clown tricks tricks just Just as if It they had hatI alwa always s 's been clowns In big circuses but it seems they had hatI been around and watched a number of ot circus clowns And little grasshoppers rode on the backs of some of the big ones and there were grasshoppers dressed as policemen On their hats in large green letters were written the words wortIs We e l keep order The fairies thought that was very ery funny And the thc grasshopper policemen policemen police poUce- men certainly were queer objects After the parade was over the band settled Itself In a corner while In a alar lar large e ring In the middle the grasshoppers grasshoppers grass grass- hoppers came out oot and did tIld their tricks They turned they somersault they had swings made matIe of ot blades of ot grass grass and and 7 How Funny They Did Look they did all sorts of ot tricks such as you youcan youcan ou can see performed on the trapeze Ina in ina ina a real circus Some of the circus performers rode rodeon on the backs of the others and antI they Jumped through h hoops and way up in inthe inthe the air then they landed back quite safely a again aln One of r the finest tricks of ot all was little Green Greeny Grasshoppers Grasshopper's trick of walking walling a long long long blade of ot grass grass or or rather many blades that had been fastened together He lie walked on his just as the rope ropewalker ropewalker ropewalker walker does docs in the circus And AntI he carried a parasol made matIe out of ot a beautiful beautiful beautiful beau beau- apple 1 leaf eat The fhe fairies clapped and und clapped when they saw nw his trick and he had to come out again and antI again to bow But Hut as you may easily guess the most wonderful of ot all was the jump- jump Ing Such jumping as you ou never ne did see see In all your our lives was that shown that day by hy the grasshoppers Each gach grasshopper did the best he lie possibly could Oh what fine Jumps they made matIe The fairies were so full ful of congratulations and the llie grasshoppers were so pleased that their circus bad been such a n good one |
