Chapter Six
At the entrance to the festival grounds, a polar bear greeter in an ecstatic yellow bowler and matching cape offered Beautimus and Samuel their choice of complimentary drafts of sparkling mead or mint water. Samuel, being the party mantis he fancied himself, right off chose a generous thimble of mead and downed it in one quaff. Beautimus selected a bulbous hollowed melon of mint water.
Acrobats with tiny bells woven into their feathers and fur, and Manx cat fire eaters in saffron colored satin trousers leapt and twirled about. Yellow-billed cuckoos juggled avocado seeds. Hepatic tanagers and yellow-rumped warblers in groups of five sang ancient Earth madrigals, accompanying themselves on tiny lutes made from corn silk strung across hollowed boa-boa seed pods. A red-naped sap
