Claribel is looking out of the window when she sees a circus parade pass the house. She is enraptured with the sight, but nurse tells her that, "circuses are only for little boys, and not for girls. Take your nap, now." Poor little Claribel jumps into bed and dreams a wonderful dream. Dressed as a tiny boy, but with long trousers, she steals under the flap of a circus tent and finds herself confronted by a huge lion in a cage. Later a monkey jumps at her, but when the elephant comes to her and offers to take her on his back; they are extremely human animals, by the way, she is delighted. Suddenly a big man, really the trainer, appears and tells her, "You are not a boy." Poor Claribel breaks down and cries and confesses hat she isn't, but wants to see the circus so much. She has a dandy time visiting the circus lady's room and donning the prettiest circus costume. She visits all the grounds and makes the acquaintance of all the trick animals. Just as she is about to jump on the back of the balky mule she falls out of the bed and finds that she has only been dreaming again.