More pictures from Karen G. #2

While the park was under re-construction we cobbled up a ring for a place to practice and with nothing else to do, put a six-act together. This gave me two pyramids, two one-foot stands and three merry-go-rounds but I made a mistake of adding "head and tail" waltzes like liberty horses, which was easy to train but twice as difficult to un-train when it was returned to a five-act. You will notice the infamous "Clarence" wandering around at left, I always liked to have dogs in and around the herd. My mother often had a Chihuahua which she might carry around in a little hand bag, when we visited the Ringling Show in 1948 and were passing in front of the elephants in the menagerie we were cautioned several times to keep the dog back at all cost. I had one dog that would back the elephants up so he could share their grain.