In this chapter, we learn that the circus that came from the district is very popular, and that the commander gave the tickets to him. He is invited to the circus by the captain, but he does not want to go with the captain because he has invited someone else. He tells us that he has never seen such a thing before, and he asks if anyone else has asked him to go. The circus clowns, he says, are "hilarious," and he wants to see them. He wants to ask the captain to take him to the show the next day, but the captain says that he will not do so because the show made the captain cry