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"Cirque du Fievel" STORYLINE: SCENE 1A The episode opens with the circus train at the loading platform which is at the circus headquarters in Baraboo, Wisconsin. The circus animals march into their cars, while the circus workers help load the wagons onto the flat cars. One worker struggles to hold a squirming, fez-wearing monkey in his arms. At the same time we hear the Ringmaster talking to the circus workers RINGMASTER: Come on, time to go. We haven't got all day. Come on, boy. Get that monkey on the train. There we go. (the train is finally loaded up and ready, and the ringmaster climbs on board the caboose and waves to the engineer) RINGMASTER: All aboard! The Redmon Brothers’ Circus is heading off for New York City! ALLLL ABOOOOOOARD!! Cut to up front, the locomotive, a 2-6-0 Baldwin mogul, blows its whistle in response, gives a loud hiss of steam, then the train begins to move as the ringmaster gets inside the caboose. Run-on shot of the circus train picking up speed. It