manager, explaining about the lost silver cup, and the found circus
dog. He asked that the fat lady be requested to write to him, to
let him know if she had taken the cup by accident, and Mr. Bobbsey
also wanted to know if the circus had lost a trick dog.

"There!" he exclaimed as he sent the letter to be mailed, "now
we'll just have to wait for an answer."

Nan and Bert, and Flossie and Freddie were soon having almost as
much fun as they had had at the seashore and in the country. Their
town playmates, who had come back from their vacations, called at
the Bobbsey home, and made up games and all sorts of sports.

"For," said Grace Lavine, with whom Nan sometimes played, "school
will soon begin, and we want to have all the fun we can until then."

"Let's jump rope," proposed Nan.

"All right," agreed Grace. "Here comes Nellie Parks, and we'll see
who can jump the most."

"No, you mustn't do that," said Nan, "Don't you remember how you
once tried to jump a hundred, and you fainted?"

"Indeed I do," said Grace. "I'm not going to be so silly as to try
that again. We'll only jump a little."

Soon Nan and her chums were having a good time in the yard.

Charley Mason, with whom Bert sometimes played, came over, and the