Don't you know the Mock Art exhibition he told us about ?" "Oh, yes," said Patty; "he'd be sure to know of something for us to do; and I think he's coming out with papa to-night.

I'll ask him." "Do," said Elsie; "and tell him it must be something that's heaps of fun, and that we'll all like, and that's never been done here before." "All right," said Patty.

"Anything else ?" "Yes; it must be something to appeal to the popular taste and draw a big crowd, so we can make a lot of money for the babies." "Very well," said Patty; "I'll tell him all that, and I'm sure he'll suggest just the right thing." Mr.Hepworth did come down that night, and when the girls asked him for suggestions he very willingly began to think up plans for them.
"I should think you might make a success," he said, "of an entertainment like one I attended up in the mountains last summer.

It was called a 'County Fair,' and was a sort of burlesque on the county fairs or state fairs that used to be held annually, and are still, I believe, in some sections of the country." "It sounds all right so far," said Patty.

"Tell us more about it." "Well, you know you get everybody interested, and you have a committee for all the different parts of it." "What are the different parts of it ?" "Oh, they're the domestic department, where you exhibit pies and bed-quilts and spatter-work done by the ladies in charge." "Of course, these exhibits aren't real, you know, Patty," said her father; "and you girls would probably be tempted to put up gay jokes on each other.