a chatterbox. Don't need any radio rigging at all where she is."

"Oh, wouldn't it be fun to get a chance to work at a broadcasting
station?" Amy cried. "We could sing, Jess. You know we sing well together.
'The Dartmoor Boy' and 'Bobolink, Bobolink, Spink-spank-spink' and----"

"And 'My Old Kentucky Blues,'" broke in Burd Alling. "If you are going
to broadcast anything like that, give us something up to date."

"You hush," Amy said. "If Jess and I ever get the chance we shall be
an honor to the program. You'll see."

That the two young fellows had returned so much earlier than had been
expected was a very fortunate thing, Jessie and Amy thought. For their
assistance was positively needed in the work of making ready for the
Fourth of July bazaar on the Norwood place, they declared.

There were only three days in which to do everything. "And believe
me," groaned Burd before the first day was ended, "we're doing
everything. Talk about being in training for the scrub team!"

"It will do you good, Burdie," cooed Amy, knowing that the diminutive
of Burd Alling's name would fret him. "You are getting awfully plump,
you know you are."

"I feel it peeling off," he grumbled. "Don't fear. No fellow will ever
get too fat around you two girls. Never were two such young Simon
Legrees before since the world began!"

But the four accomplished wonders. Of course the committee and their
assistants and some of the other young people came to help with the
decorations. But the two girls and Amy's older brother and his friend
set up the marquees and strung the Japanese lanterns, in each of which
was a tiny electric light.

"No candle-power fire-traps for us," Jessie said. "And then, candles
are always blowing out."

About all the relaxation they had during the time until the eve of the
Fourth was in Jessie's room, listening to the radio concerts. Mr.
Norwood brought out from the city a two-step amplifier and a horn and
they were attached to the instrument.

The third of the month, with the help of the men servants on the
Norwood place, the tent for the radio concert was set up between the
house and the driveway, and chairs were brought from the parish house
to seat a hundred people. It was a good tent, and there were hangings
which had been used in some church entertainment in the past to help
make it sound proof.

They strung through it a few electric bulbs, which would give light
enough. And the lead wire from the aerials,