A boy named Morris McGurk If I Ran the Circus, who finds a useless vacant lot behind a store owned by Mr. Sneelock. Morris imagines a circus being built on the vacant lot with talented circus animals and and strange circus animals that have never been discoved but have wonderful talents. Morris however also imagines Mr. Sneelock helping him out but doing stunts and performing and serving pink lemonde to the audience members who ever comes to see the show.