pickets!"

"How mean!" scolded Sister. "No one wants to climb over her old
fence, or swing on her gate."

"Well, I think it is a shame the way the boys torment her,"
declared Louise severely. "Jimmie says he caught a little red-
headed boy the other day throwing old tin cans over her fence. You
know what Daddy would say if he ever thought you or Brother did
anything like that."

"We don't," Sister assured her earnestly. "We never bother Miss
Putnam."





CHAPTER XIII

A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT


Fourth of July, always a glorious holiday in the Morrison
household, came and was celebrated by a family picnic which gave
Brother and Sister something to talk about for days afterward.
Their sandbox, too, kept them busy and for a long time Jimmie
never had to warn them not to touch the gymnasium apparatus in the
barn.