"We can make a big balloon."

"How?"

"I'll show you. Come on."

"All right."

Russ, letting his toy balloon float over his head, while Laddie did the
same, went out to the barn back of the house. It was not really a barn
any longer, as Daddy Bunker kept his automobile in it, but it looked
like a barn, so I will call it that instead of a garage.

"How are you going to make a balloon?" asked Laddie as he saw Russ tie
his toy to a picket of the fence.

"You wait, I'll show you. First you go in and get the big clothes
basket. Don't let Norah see you, or she might stop you. Bring me out the
clothes basket."

Laddie did as he was told. As he came back with the basket, which was a
large, round one, Laddie said:

"Do you think we can fasten our two balloons to this and go up in it?"

"No, I'm not going to make my balloon that way," Russ answered. "You'll
see. Come on into the barn. We have to go upstairs."

Overhead in the barn was a place where hay had once been kept for the