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`` Thanks for your valued approval , '' said Dick sarcastically ; `` how do the rest of you fellows feel about it ? Want to go ? '' There was a general chorus of assent , and Dick gravely declared the proposition carried by a unanimous vote . `` I think it starts around half past two , '' he said , `` and I guess we can all be there by that time , ca n't we ? '' It appeared that everybody could , and after discussing incidents of circuses they had seen in the past the group dispersed to their respective rooms . The next day was clear and bright , and at the appointed time the merry group met on the campus and took their way in high spirits toward the center of the town , where the circus had pitched its tents . Many others were going the same way , and numerous were the jokes and furious the repartee exchanged between the different groups .