Adventure Series - 07 - The Circus of Adventure by Enid Blyton

Author:Enid Blyton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Children's Fiction
ISBN: 9780330448345
Publisher: Macmillan UK
Published: 2007-12-15T09:41:22+00:00

Chapter 17

BORKEN AT LAST!

Kiki was a great success, not only with the circus-folk, but with the people who came to visit it.

The Boss kept his word, and allowed Jack to show Kiki. Pedro helped him to make a little stand with a gilded perch set on a pole. Kiki was thrilled!

‘I believe you think you’re on a throne or something!’ said Jack, grinning. ‘Princess Kiki, the finest talking parrot in the world! Now-what about a song?’

Kiki was always ready to do anything if she could get claps and cheers and laughter. She really surpassed herself, and made Fank, the bear-trainer, quite jealous because she drew such a lot of people to her little side-show!

She sang lustily, and although she mixed up the rhymes and words she knew in a most ridiculous manner, the Tauri-Hessian folk didn’t know that. They really thought she was singing a proper song.

Then she would always answer them if they said anything to her, though as they didn’t speak English they had no idea what she was saying. Still-she answered at once, and usually went off into such a cackle of laughter afterwards that everyone roared too.

‘Tikkopoolinwallyoo?’ somebody would ask Kiki.

‘Shut the door, fetch the doctor, Polly’s got a cold!’ Kiki would answer at once. Even Jack had to grin at her, she enjoyed it all so much.

Her noises were the biggest attraction of all. Her sneezes and coughs and her sudden hiccups made the village people hold their sides and laugh till the tears fell down their cheeks. They were rather overawed by her express-train-roaring-through-a-tunnel imitation, and they didn’t understand the lawn-mower noise because they had never seen one; but they really loved the way she clucked like a hen, grunted like Fank’s bears, and barked like a dog.

Yes-Kiki was a great success. Jack felt that she was getting very spoilt by all this fuss-but she did bring in money to him, so that he could pay Pedro’s mother for the food she gave him. and for letting him share Pedro’s little van.

The rest of the money he tied carefully up in his handkerchief, thinking that it might come in very useful if he needed any in Borken. He kept his hand on it when Feefo and Fum the chimpanzees were anywhere about. They would pick his pocket if they could-and he would lose all his savings!

‘We shall be in Borken tomorrow,’ Pedro told him, as they got orders to pack up that evening. ‘The Boss has got a pitch there-good one too, at the bottom of the castle hill.’

Jack’s heart leapt-ah, Borken at last. A whole week had already gone by, and he had been getting very worried indeed. Now perhaps he could get some news of the others. If only he could! Was Lucy-Ann all right? She would so hate being a prisoner in a castle.

They arrived in Borken the next evening. Jack first saw the castle from a long way off. It stood on a hill, and looked like something out of an old tale of King Arthur and his Knights.

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