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I am just old enough to have seen a small traveling circus once: the parade, seeing elephants harnessed to pull up the poles for the big top, being close enough to the performers to see the patches on their costuming.Report
We went to one about four years ago. I don’t recall an elephant. There was a camel who drank Mountain Dew though.Report
If you had seen harnessed elephants putting up the big top, you would remember it.Report