The Green family ate their in the carryall on Main Street, after the circus parade had passed. They didn't forget to give old dog Spot something to eat out of the big basket that they had brought with them from home. Although they hadn't expected him to go to the village with them, there was more than enough food for everybody. Even Johnnie Green's appetite wasn't equal to all the goodies that his mother had provided.  
People were already starting for the circus grounds on the of the village. Johnnie Green noticed them uneasily.
 
"We don't want to be late for the show," he reminded his father.
 
"We'll get there in time," Farmer Green assured him.
 
And they did. Soon they followed the crowd through the village streets until they came in sight of the "big top," the great tent with flags flying above it, and smaller tents all around.
 
Farmer Green turned the bays into a yard near-by, where he unharnessed and fed them. Then he tied one end of a rope to Spot's collar and fastened the other end to a carriage wheel.
 
"There!" he said. "Now we're ready."
 
Old dog Spot didn't want to be left behind. He at the rope and .
 
"Be quiet!" Johnnie Green's father said to him. "You followed us to the village. And now you'll have to behave yourself. They wouldn't let you into the show."
 
Then the Green family turned their backs on him.
 
"They needn't think they can keep me here," Spot . "I didn't run all the way from the farm to the village to be tied to a wheel."
 
Johnnie Green and his father and mother hadn't been gone a quarter of an hour when Spot succeeded in slipping his collar over his head. Then he dashed out of the yard and ran to the circus groun............