ver here and
call him. He'll come running, and when he gets near enough, Freddie,
you and Flossie hold up the paper hoop. He'll go right through it."

It worked out just as the children had planned. Snap raced away from
Charley, when he heard Bert calling. He ran right between Flossie and
Freddie, who raised the hoop just in time.

"Rip! Tear!" burst the paper, and Snap sailed through the hoop just as
he probably had often done in the circus, perhaps from the back of a
horse.

"Oh, that was fine!" cried Flossie. "Let's make another hoop!"

"Let's make a lot of 'em, and have a circus with Snap, and charge money
to see him, and then we can buy a lot of ice cream for our party!" said
Freddie.

"Oh, yes!" agreed his sister.

Well, they did make more hoops, and Snap seemed to enjoy jumping
through them. But when Mrs. Bobbsey heard about the circus plans she
decided it would make too much confusion.

"Besides, you have to help me get ready for your party," she said to
the two little twins.

This took their mind off the proposed circus, but for several days
after that they had much fun making hoops for Snap to jump through.

Bert and Charley got a long plank from the lumber yard, and spent much
time after school in the Bobbsey barn, working over their bob sled. It
was harder than they had thought it would be, and they had to call in
some other boys to help them. Mr. Bobbsey, too, gave his son some
advice about how to build it.

Flossie and Freddie liked it very much in school. The kindergarten
teacher was very kind, and took an interest in all her pupils. "Oh,
mamma!" cried Flossie, coming in one day from school, "I've learned how
to make a house."

"And I can make a lantern, and a chain to hang it on, and I can put it
in front of Flossie's house!" exclaimed Freddie. "And, please, mother,
may I have some bread and jam. I'm awful hungry."

"Yes, dear, go ask Dinah," said Mrs. Bobbsey, with a smile. "And then
you may show me how you make houses and lanterns and a chain. Are they
real?"

"No," said Flossie, "they're only paper, but they look nice."

"I'm sure they must," said their mother.

After each of the twins had been given a large slice of bread and
butter and jam, they showed the latest thing they had learned at
school. Flossie did manage to cut out a house, that had a chimney on
it, and a door, besides two windows.

Freddie took several little narrow strips of paper, and pasting the
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