thought it would be. Grace and Nellie helped, but sometimes the
wind would blow the paper away just as they were ready to fold it
around the rim of the hoop. Then the paste would get on the girls'
hands.

"What are you doing?" asked Bert, as he and Charley came from the
barn. They had to stop work on their job, as they could not find a
long enough plank. The decided to get one from Mr. Bobbsey's lumber
yard, later.

"We're going to have Snap do the circus trick of jumping through
a paper hoop," explained Nan. "Only we can't seem to get the hoop
made."

"I'll do it," offered Bert, and as he and Charley had often pasted
paper on their kite frames they had better luck, and soon the hoop
was ready.

"Come, Snap!" called Freddie, it having been settled that he and
Flossie were to hold the hoop for the dog to leap through. Snap,
always ready for fun, jumped up from the grass where he had been
sleeping, and frisked about, barking loudly.

"Now you hold him there, Charley," directed Bert, pointing to a spot
back of where Freddie and Flossie stood. "Then I'll go over here
and call him. He'll come running, and when he gets near enough,
Freddie, you and Flossie hold up the paper hoop. He'll go right
through it."

It worked out just as the children had planned. Snap raced away from