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Grandma Miller had explained that the animals were only a part of the circus; there would be a clown, who wore strange garments, men who must be mounted on prancing horses, and all could be assembled in a procession.

Grandma Miller knew just how to make the figures stand upright with clever little braces of stiff paper pasted on their backs; and Roxy’s mother had suggested that Roxy could use her box of colored crayons to color the lion’s mane, the stripes on the zebras, and to mark the eyes of the monkeys.

As Roxy added the camel to the pile of figures in the lower drawer she thought happily that her paper menagerie was now nearly complete.

“Then I’ll cut out clowns and circus-men,” she decided, “and then I can get ready to surprise Grandma,” for Roxy was making a plan to celebrate her grandmother’s birthday, that came in mid-July, by an entertainment in which the “paper circus” was to have a prominent place. Polly had promised to help Roxy with this plan, and no one else was to be in the secret.