the top of the show case and made a mixing motion with her hands.

“Oh, of course! Why didn’t you say so at first?” asked Mrs. Traddle, somewhat peevishly. “Children come in here talking about fly screens and crops and don’t seem to know what they want. Jelly beans and gum drops, of course. Mix them up. Certainly. Your motion, Lucy, reminds me I mixed up a cake35 and it’s in the oven now. I’ll have to hurry and take it out. Here’s your candy.”

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Whether it was because she liked the two little girls or because she was in a hurry, Mrs. Traddle gave Lucy a very generous five cents’ worth of candy and the two girls went out of the store rejoicing.

The girls ate part of the candy on their way to Mason’s meadow. They saved some with which to make the boys envious. In a short time they were at the field. But they saw no signs of Teddy, Dick or Joe.

“Maybe they’ve been here and gone,” said Margie.

“No, I don’t think so,” said Lucy. “It takes quite a while to wind up those rubber band motors. Maybe they’re over by the woods. Come on!”

The girls hurried across the field and, in a short time, came to the place where Joe and Dick had left their airplanes to follow Teddy into the gully.

36 “Oh, look!” exclaimed Margie. “Here’s my brother’s plane!”

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“Then the other must be Joe’s,” said Lucy. “For it isn’t Teddy’s.”

“How do you suppose the planes got here?” asked Margie.

“Why,” said Lucy, considering, “I guess the boys flew them and the planes came down and the boys couldn’t find them. But we have. And we can take the planes home and won’t the boys be surprised?”

“I should say so!” exclaimed Margie. “But where is Teddy and his plane?”

“Maybe his flew another way, and he and Joe and Dick are hunting for it,” suggested Lucy. “Anyhow, we have found two of the planes and we’ll take them home with us. When the boys are feeling sorry that they have lost them, we’ll give them back.”

“Oh, what fun!” laughed Margie.

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