"Everyone
give it up for Bertha!" Jamie shouted with big smile, gesturing
grandly at the monstrous hippopotamus that he shared the stage with.
The crowd cheered and applauded in response, as Bertha knelt on her
front legs, bowing as she had been trained.
"That
does it for us, thanks everyone for coming!" cried Ella, Jamie's
fellow trainer and performer. As the crowd emptied out of the arena,
the pair of circus employees led their star back to the pens to put
her away for the
Hungry Hippo
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