Mr Galliano's Circus Story Collection (Bumper Short Story Collections)

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Time will tell and this first installment of the Galliano Circus tales ends after nearly 220 pages and then the reader can gear up for the next exciting book that deals with the life of Jimmy Brown.

A pretty little girl with dark brown curls and eyes as blue as cornflowers comes along on a white horse and as she passes by she makes a face at Jimmy and tries to flick him with her little whip. Gloom has descended on the performers and this is because Harry the odd-job man has done a moonlight flit with the week's takings! In the weekend, Jimmy visits the circus camp for a whole day at the invitation of his young friend, Lotta.

There are ten of them — all terriers who are handled by Lotta's mother 'Lal' and they perform all kinds of tricks in the ring. Third edition hard back binding in publisher's original turquoise cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered maroon back and front.

Jimmy learns how to treat Lotta when she doesn't come for lessons - he tracks her down and grabs her by the hair and hauls her to the caravan where his mother is waiting for them — "Here's a new monkey, Mother!He doesn't hesitate to fire trapeze artists Jan and Yol on discovering that they have been treating their dog cruelly. The two children roam the countryside and let the dogs loose for a good run and very unfortunately, one of them — Darky, is lost! AS PICTURED - 5 IMAGES * Second Edition, 1939 A worn copy, complete but with scuffed and marked boards and frequent small handling marks throughout. deep x 2" high chunk chipped from all pages and cover on leading edge, NOT AFFECTING any text or pictures (apart from cover edge), overall a Good, a bright copy. Prelims have beeen neatly removed so no date but appears late 1960s possibly to remove library or school stamps as there is a small handwritten taped number to the spine suggesting this has been a library or school copy.

Blue cloth covered boards clean, light wear to corners and spine ends, spine and head of rear board sunned, foxing to endpapers, ink inscription to fep, colour frontispiece entitled, 'Do your best, Lucky,' said Jimmy, 'Do your best! Born in London in 1897, Enid lived much of her life in Buckinghamshire and adored dogs, gardening and the countryside. All four books were the first of popular series and all four are now extremely scarce as first editions.Sirkus yang identik dengan 'penyiksaan terhadap hewan', dalam cerita ini justru dikisahkan sebagai tempat di mana para pecinta hewan berada. Blyton was a prolific author of children's books, who penned an estimated 800 books over about 40 years. Jimmy even ends up riding on the elephant's head and taking him down to the stream every day for a drink. This marriage ended in divorce, and Blyton remarried in 1943, to surgeon Kenneth Fraser Darrell Waters.

To read them is to soak up the atmosphere of circus life with its glamour and glitter but also its trials and tribulations.He wanders around amongst the caravans and despite being shouted at by one or other of the circus-folk and warned off at one stage by Mr. What will the boy do with no companion to roam with in the hills when the dogs need to be taken out?