"But I can make an airship," said Rose to herself. "Anyhow I can make something to give my doll a ride in the air in a basket."
And that is what the little girl was going to do. She had felt how hard one balloon pulled—for they were filled with gas just as a real balloon is—and Rose thought that if one balloon pulled so strongly six would pull harder yet.
"I'll tie all six balloons to the basket, and put Lily in and give her an airship ride," said Rose.
So, while her brothers and sisters were watching the chauffeur, this is what Rose did. She carefully loosed each balloon, besides her own, from the fence, and tied the strings to the handle of the basket in which she put Lily.
Lily was not heavy like Sue, the doll about which I told you before, the one the lady once thought was her baby in the car. The basket was not heavy, either. So that when Rose had tied the last balloon to the handle, she found that it rose into the air with her doll, and would have floated off, only Rose tied a cord to the bottom of the basket, and kept hold of that.
"Now I've got an airship for my doll!" exclaimed the little girl, and, really, she did have one kind of airship.
Up above her head floated the basket with Lily in it, and Rose was quite pleased.
ABOVE HER HEAD FLOATED THE BASKET WITH LILY IN IT.
Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's.—Page 102