"Well, I hope you can fly your kite again," said the woman, as she walked away.
Russ picked up his kite and went back to the vacant lot with it. He tried to fly it, but the wind had gone down, and the toy would not rise. Laddie's, too, had begun to bob about, and he said:
"I guess I'll pull mine down before it falls."
"Well, we had some fun, anyhow," remarked Russ.
It was the next day, a fine, sunny one, that Rose and Violet, having played with their dolls until they were tired, wanted to do something else. Daddy Bunker had taken Russ and Laddie to a moving picture show, but as Rose and Violet had seen it once, they did not want to go again. Margy and Mun Bun were asleep, and the two girls didn't know what to play.
"I know how to have some fun," said Rose at last.
"How?" asked her sister.
"We can jump rope. I know where there's a piece of clothesline that Aunt Jo'll let us take."
"How can two of us jump rope?" asked Vi. "We'd both have to turn, so who could jump?"
"We can tie one end to a tree, and take turns turning," said Rose. "Then one of us can jump, and whoever misses has to turn for the other."