Childrens Circle; 81; Circus Parade

The children circle with Nancy Harper presented transcribed by the Lowell Institute cooperative broadcasting Council and prepared under the supervision of the nursery training school of Boston Tufts college. Get ready now to join the children circle. I climbed up on the merry go round going around it. I climbed up on a big brown horse and it went up and down and up and down. And sat high up going to be brown horse and rode. On the merry go round I rode around on them. And I don't. Think it's a merry go round. The real

sound of a merry go round. You haven't heard that sound since last summer have you. Remember the sun the hot summer sun and the noise and the crowds of children everyone laughing. There were balloons and short sleeved dresses in bare feet and popcorn. Bob step his wife isn't so nice I just drank twenty five cents for any color any size summer. It's so easy to. Go out and pull on your boots.

But when you hear this summertime music and think the summertime thoughts and shut your eyes to pertain you can see it remembering just like a picture in a book. And. There are places in this world where it's just like summertime right now. Can you believe it. There are real places in this world with real people going barefoot because the sun is so hot and the grass is so warm.

There are real children going waiting to cool them selves off and real grownups fanning themselves with fans because it's so hot. It's a summer like far from the snow. It's the Summer Land where the birds and the butterflies go. And that's not all. Can you get to this every year just about this time when you're in the far north. Taking a rest and a vacation to practice at a country each writing country specially built fast trains trains a special

and special course for tigers and special cages for elephants and the clowns too. Can you guess the circus. Circus coming to rest. Bring. It. Let's pretend the circus strange. Are you ready. You can make believe that in no time use Cheers for your circus cause

or make believe them all doesn't matter. Much. Just here comes the circus train down the tracks. All the Tigers all fancy dancy prancing circus horse. And special circus car. It changed. Changed

hands and best. How's your train sounding. Everything gets all up. Let's go to church. Well it was. Mr circus train driver doesn't

see why I do believe that real trees with leaves just like summer and beaches and even further. Pertain. But that's truly real somewhere where the circus goes so conductor because trees and grass and blue sky and people in bare feet and short sleeves. And there is a bull at the corner and an ice cream wagon

coming up the street and screams. Sounds like summer feels like summer. Oh and. Let's get all the lions and tigers and elephants off the train. We're here. Let's let them all to walk around and stretch their legs are tired of being cooped up in our circus train. So come along animals. Here's a peanut for a surprise. It's not a good idea of course they want to stretch their legs.

Animals. So that's unfastened their cage. You'll be the leader. Who come first in your parade. Doesn't matter really could be the elephant. Mr. Elephant first and Mrs elephant next elephant and the prancing horses with ribbons tied and tails to the passers by

and people. And

we're glad to be back in the people. I am. Wouldn't have just a plain walking day. That's no parade for a clown would have a special fancy specially to juggle along the streets and then

watch me and he do a somersault or two. That's how it is with the show. Today is a special summer that. I am. People

do it so let's do it. I am. I am. At last and at last the end of the day. You need to pray this because his come home. Let's put the animals away in the make believe houses will pretend with him

here's your house behind this chair and the door and you walk right in. Would you like a nice big beefsteak for supper Mr. Nice beefsteak right here. You just have yourself a good supper could use tonight and come and family. Let's make the elephant house in this corner is plenty of room here for a father and a mother elephant said he just sells down be all comfortable. He's a handful of peanuts. Just watch them gobble up. You know it's had a good peanut separate elephants puts you in the morning Good Night Elf and family and let's have a

special barn for the prancing horses. You are horses and here's some juicy j for your supper and you stand still and eat that supper for a minute won't you braid your tail and take the ribbons off. It's been an exciting day for you hasn't it. Well you circus horses without a ride on a circus train and a parade through the city and a brand new circus house to live in. Tomorrow you'll begin in the horses summer school you learn new tricks for next year's circus you learn how to count and talk. Practice in practice. Did you ready for next year's circus you'll see. So we just step Ortiz or you go to sleep good night with

you now let's go alone with the clowns vacation house and say good night to them too. That's potentially a special house for the clowns. You could play that and pretend that a vacation house for clowns in the special Summer Land where circuses go to practice and the clowns they practice two somersaults before practice somersaults before lunch somersaults posts some assorted tricks all day and made it right. Just before period. Just one more somersault of course and now it's nearly bit down for the cause. So come along gloves one more somersault ready get set

and somersault. But the. White House and. Religion.

The oldest of the three children was a boy whose name is Charles and he was 8 years old and the middle one was a girl whose name was Nancy and she was 6 years old and the youngest was a boy and his name was William and he was four years old. One semi morning when William was riding his scooter up and down the walk girls said Hurry up boy put away your scooter and we'll take you down to Main Street to see the circus parade. And Nancy said Hurry up when you have washed your hands and comb your hair and we'll take you down to Main Street to see this circus parade. So William put away his scooter and he washed his hands and he combed his hair and they all started out down Hollywood on their way to Main Street to

see this circus parade. Hurry up for him said Charles walk faster William. We don't want to be late when we get to Main Street to see the circus parade. When you have walked fast to where you said Nancy I will be too late when we get to Main Street to see the beginning of this circus parade. When Hume walked fast but Jones walked faster and as he walked faster as they all hurried along down Hollywood glade on their way to me Street to see the circus parade I called William white for me. My shoes untied. We can't wait said Giles. We can't wait said Nancy or we shall all be too late when we get to Main Street to see the circus parade. So when you move faster and faster but

that that gap will be shoestring. So William hopped and William galloped as he hurried along. Polly when delayed on the way to Main Street to see the circus parade. When you lop off King William shoe and there we stood with one shoe off and one shoe on. Wait for me. Called William. Wait for me my shoes come off. Giles and as he did not answer he did not answer because they did not hear when they didn't hear William because they were too far away. As they hurried along down Polly Winckel name on their way to Main Street to see the circus parade. So William stopped and he put on an issue and he tied this shoestring into a tight knot and then he

slowly and carefully made the ends into a proper need. But when it was all done Nancy and Charles were God they were nowhere in sight. So when a man unknown he ran all alone down Polly went to lade on his way to Main Street to see the circus parade. And when he stopped he stopped at a corner because he heard music. William heard circus music coming nearer and nearer and then will you ever saw the circus parade coming to him. Coming to William on its way to Main Street. First came the horses then came the band and then came the camels and gay man leading an elephant.

A man saw William. He saw William standing all alone all alone because Charles and Nancy and everybody else everybody else in the whole village the whole village of pleasant had gone to Main Street to see the circus parade. What a ride called the man. Yes said William. So the man lifted William up up high on the elephant and William and the elephant paraded along toward Main Street. William is so high he could touch the branches of trees and look down way down on all the people of Pleasant Hill as they stood on Main Street to see this circus parade past the drug store past the grocery store

past the church and then he came to the post office. He looked way down and there he saw Charles and Nancy and all their friends and Charles announcing all their friends looked up way up and they're on top of the elephant. They saw William riding the elephant in the circus parade. Look at him shouted Charles wait in the shouted Nancy. Get William shouted all their friends and then they all ran along beside William as he rode the elephant in the circus parade of Summer Street down High Street and then to the corner of the lane and then the man that did with him down. Down to the ground again. Thank you for the elephant ride said

William. The man said You're welcome. Tell us about it said child. Tell us about the circus parade. But wait wait. My untied so we waited and their friends waited to string in a good three and a proper neat bow and then slowly he walked slowly with William as he told him about riding down Main Street down Main Street. This is forever.