Let's watch him!" proposed Russ, and he and Laddie, with Vi,
Mun Bun and Margy, ran over to where the chauffeur was doing something
to the car.

"Will our balloons be all right?" asked Laddie.

"Yes, they can't get away," said Russ.

Well, that was true enough. The balloons could not have gotten away by
themselves, but something happened to them.

Rose did not go with her brothers and sisters over to watch William.
Instead, she went into the house, got Lily, one of her dolls, and a
small basket. Rose had a queer idea in her little head, and she was
going to carry it out.

A day or so before an airship had flown over Boston, circling around
the Back Bay section, and right over Aunt Jo's house. The children were
much excited by it, and at first Russ was going to make one. But he
found it harder than he supposed, so he gave it up.

"But I can make an airship," said Rose to herself. "Anyhow I can make
something to give my doll a ride in the air in a basket."

And that is what the little girl was going to do. She had felt how hard
one balloon pulled--for they were filled with gas just as a real balloon
is--and Rose thought that if one balloon pulled so strongly six would
pull harder yet.

"I'll tie all six balloons to the basket, and put Lily in and give her
an airship ride," said Rose.

So, while her brothers and sisters were watching the chauffeur, this is
what Rose did. She carefully loosed each balloon, besides her own, from
the fence, and tied the strings to the handle of the basket in which she
put Lily.

Lily was not heavy like Sue, the doll about which I told you before, the
one the lady once thought was her baby in the car. The basket was not
heavy, either. So that when Rose had tied the last balloon to the
handle, she found that it rose into the air with her doll, and would
have floated off, only Rose tied a cord to the bottom of the basket, and
kept hold of that.

"Now I've got an airship for my doll!" exclaimed the little girl, and,
really, she did have one kind of airship.

Up above her head floated the basket with Lily in it, and Rose was quite
pleased.

[Illustration: ABOVE HER HEAD FLOATED THE BASKET WITH LILY IN IT.

_Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's.--Page 102_]

"I can make things as good as Russ, even if I can't whistle like him,"
she said. "This is fun! Don't you like it, Lily?"

Of course Lily couldn't answer and say that she did, but if dolls like
airship rides I'm sure this one of