She was three years old, and she had come to Fairport in a vessel with some sailors, who had gotten her in a far-away place.

* CHAPTER XXXIII PERFORMING ANIMALS A week or two after we got home, I heard the Morris boys talking about an Italian who was coming to Fairport with a troupe of trained animals, and I could see for myself, whenever I went to town, great flaming pictures on the fences, of monkeys sitting at tables, dogs, and ponies, and goats climbing ladders, and rolling balls, and doing various tricks.