Part 18 (1/2)

CHAPTER XIII

THE BAZAAR

When she had talked it over with Momsy and Miss Seyht of the radio lecture quite seriously Soe the entertainment in the radio tent, and who better than Jessie?

”It is quite wonderful howpeople have learned about radio--so much more than I had any idea,” said the school teacher ”Of course you can write a little prose essay, Jessie, get it by heart, and repeat it at each session in the tent, if you feel ti an off-hand talk on the subject”

”You can do it if you only think you can, Jessie,” said her hter”

”Oh, now, Moive the and infored, Jessie spent all the forenoon of the Fourth shut up in her own roo She had alreadydone by all the stations within reach of her fine radio set, and found that it was possible, by tuning her instruet so into every hour from two o'clock on until eleven

Naturally, so than others; but as New Melford people for theout of the air would see said in co to be bunkoed a little”

”Let me tell you, Mr Smarty,” said Amy, ”that Jessie's lecture is orth the price of admission alone Never mind the radio entertainreed Burd ”You can't scare me!”

The radio had been carefully tried out in the tent the evening before

The boys had got the market reports and the early baseball scores out of the air on Fourth of July , before the bazaar opened When Jessie cae of the radio tent, she felt that she was letter perfect in the ”talk” she had arranged to introduce each session of the wireless entertainrounds; but several of the older boys had been instructed to keep an oversight of the entire place that careless and possibly rough youngsters should do no harm

The Norwoods', like the Dreas one of the show places of the Roselawn section of New Melford Boys and girls ht do considerable harm around the place if they were not under discipline

The girls and boys belonging to the congregation of Dr Stanley's church were on hand as flower sellers, booth attendants, and waitresses Ice-creae; sandwiches and cake from the house kitchen, where Mrs Norwood's cook herself presided proudly over the goodies

In several booths were orangeade, lemonade, and other soft drinks The fancy costuirls and boys wore certainly were ”fetching” That the masks were the result of a joke on Chip Truro's partabout, as busy as a bee Darry and Burd were at the head of the ”police” Miss Seymour took tickets for the radio tent, and after the first entertain at two o'clock, she complimented Jessie warirl introduced the show

The lawns of the Norwood place began to be crowded before two o'clock

Cars were parked for several blocks in both directions Special policemen had been sent out from town to patrol the vicinity Dr

Stanley's suests, expanded to an almost unbelievable breadth

The noisy and explosive Fourth as it used to be is now scarcely known

Our forefathers did not realize that freedouns and firecrackers and theof powder

”Now,” stated Burd Alling pompously, ”we celebrate the name of the Father of his Country with a dish of fruit ice-creaton sundae, please, with plenty of 'sundae' on it Thank you!”

Then he gave up twice the price that he would have had to pay at the Dainties Shop don for the sa lady in the Colurumbled Darry ”It's a hold-up”