Faith was a little ham-bone and would repeat anything and her ability to remember things was amazing. Jean taught Faith a razz-m-tazz sideshows spiel, which the little three year old would rattle off without missing a word.

Ladies and Gentleman step right up and see the eighth wonder of the world.
She not only walks, she talks, she crawls on her belly like a reptile, and the Felicitous, spontaneous, combusteration of the diabolical system of which we are cuspadoroily speaking.  She not only has vertical stripes, she has horizontal stripes, which mesmerizes people into a spontaneous trance.

Step right up and get your tickets before they are gone.

Jean would lay on her back with her legs straight up in the air and balance the little girl on her feet. Jean eventually taught her too stand up on her feet and then with a bounce in the air, she would land sitting on Jean's feet. At other times she would flip her into the air into a summersault, again catching her on her feet.  This fueled Jean's dreams of
some day going back to the circus and possibly taking Faith with her.

  By Faith Payton