nd Vi!"

"No, don't, please, Rose," said her mother. "It isn't settled yet. We
haven't really decided to go."

"Oh, but you must come if I have to come down with my big hay wagon and
cart you up!" said Grandpa Ford. "But we'll talk about that later. I'm
glad neither of you two children was hurt. Now here is five cents each.
Run down and buy a lollypop. I imagine they must be five cents apiece
now, with the way everything has gone up."

"No, they're only a penny apiece, but sometimes you used to get two for
a cent," explained Russ, as he took one coin and Rose the other. "Thank
you," he went on. "We'll get something, and give Mun Bun and Margy a
bit."

"And Violet and Laddie, too," added Rose.

Russ looked at the five-cent piece in his hand as if wondering if it
would stretch that far.

"Send the other children to me, and I'll give them each five cents,"
said Grandpa Ford with a laugh.

"Then we can all go to the store!" said Rose, clapping her hands. "They
have lovely five-cent grab-bags down at Henderson's store."

"Well, don't eat too much trash," said Mrs. Bunker. Then, turning to
Grandpa Ford, she said: "Now we can go back in the house and you can
finish what you were telling us when Russ fell out of the hammock."

"I didn't zactly fall _out_ of it," the little boy explained. "I wasn't
in it. I was climbing up on one side, and I--I----"

"Well, you fell, anyhow," said his father. "Please don't do it again.
Now we'll go in, Father."

Russ and Rose were left standing on the porch, each holding a five-cent
piece. Russ looked at Rose, and Rose looked at Russ.

"We didn't hear what the ghost was at Great Hedge," said the little
girl.

"No," agreed Russ. "He was saying that, 'all of a sudden,' just like in
a story, you know, when----"

"When you fell all of a sudden!" interrupted Rose.

"I couldn't help it," declared Russ. "If you'd had the mat, I wouldn't
'a' made any noise."

"Oh, well, let's go and spend our five cents," suggested Rose. "And we
can tell Laddie and Vi and Margy and Mun Bun to go for theirs. We'll
have to wait for them to go to the store with us, anyhow. Mun Bun and
Margy can't go alone."

"All right, you go and tell 'em," returned Russ. "Shall I go and listen
some more at the window?"

"No, I guess not," said Rose. "They might see you."

For it was in listening at the window that Russ had fallen. As he had
partly explained, he had climbed up the hammock, as a sailor climbs a
ro