"It must be in the school house hall so everybody will go," declared Helen.
"Why not use the hall and the grounds, too?" inquired Ethel Blue. "If it's a fine evening there are various things that would be prettier to have out of doors than indoors."
"The refreshments, for instance," explained Ethel Brown. "Every one would rather eat his ice cream and cake at a table on the lawn in front of the schoolhouse than inside where it may be stuffy if it happens to be a warm night."
"Lanterns on the trees and candles on each table would make light enough," decided Ethel Blue.
"There could be a Punch and Judy show in a tent at the side of the schoolhouse," suggested Dorothy.
"What is there flowery about a Punch and Judy show?" asked Roger scornfully.
"Nothing at all," returned Dorothy meekly, "but for some reason or other people always like a Punch and Judy show."
"Where are we going to get a tent?"
"A tent would be awfully warm," Ethel Brown decided. "Why couldn't we have it in the corner where there is a fence on two sides? We could lace boughs back and forth between the palings and make the fence higher, and on the other two sides borrow or buy some wide chicken wire from the hardware store and make that eye-proof with branches."
"And string an electric light wire over them. I begin to get enthusiastic," cried Roger. "We could amuse, say, a hundred people at a time at ten cents apiece, in the side-show corner and keep them away from the other more crowded regions."