eight o'clock before
Then they hitched up their teams and flocked to town in the wake of the peril , there to marvel and delight in the very things that had awed them in their own province . And all through the land people locked their doors and put away their treasures . The circus had come to town ! It was eight o'clock before David was routed from his strange bed by the boss canvasman . They were in a new town . He rubbed his eyes as he stood beside the wagon wheel and looked upon the amazing scene before him . Dozens of huge wagons were spread over the show-grounds ; a multitude of men and horses swarmed in and about them ; curious crowds of early risers stood afar off and gazed .