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 employees against taking too great risks to save the animals under such conditions. "Because," he concluded, "you know we can buy Shetlands and any of the other animals that we may lose, but a human life cannot be duplicated."

Mr. Bingham was very kind, and Freckles appreciated his generous words, but just the same he knew that they could not buy another Dapples, not even with all Mr. Bingham's money.

But the rank and file of the circus people agreed with Freckles. Many of them would have done the same thing for the animals they loved. So they made up a purse for the boy, who was thunderstruck to find that it contained two hundred dollars.

This is the way the great circus family sticks together. They are true brothers and sisters. If one is in trouble, all are in trouble. No men or women in the world will dig deeper into their pockets for their friends, or a good cause, than they.