"Well, this certainly was a nice day, even if it did rain," said Nan,
as they were ready to go to bed that night. "I wonder what we can do
to-morrow?"
"I know," answered Bert. "Harry and I have a fine plan."
"Oh, tell me what it is," begged his sister.
"It's a secret," he laughed as he went upstairs.
After breakfast next morning Nan, who did not get up very early,
looked for Harry and her brother.
"Where are the boys?" she asked her mother.
"Out in the barn," was the answer. "They took some big sheets of paper
with them."
"They must be going to make kites," Nan said.
But when she saw what Bert and Harry were doing, she knew it was not a
kite game they were planning. For in letters, made with a black stick
on the sheets of paper, Nan read the words:
FIVE-PIN SHOW
COME ONE COME ALL
"Oh, what is it?" she cried. "Please tell me, Bert!"
"We're going to have a show," said Harry, "and we're going to charge
five pins to come in."
"Oh, may I be in it?" asked Nan. "I'll do anything you want me to.
Mayn't I be in it?"
"Shall we let her?" asked Bert of his country cousin.
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