"Teddy! 0f all the wet blankets!"

"Well, you never can tell," exclaimed Teddy, adding wickedly, as Ferd startedto set the trunk on end: "Be careful there, Ferd; she may explode, as theaeroplane did."

"Somebody give me something to throw at him," cried Laura indignantly."Anyway," she added triumphantly, "we know there isn't dynamite in it orwe'd have been blown to bits long ago. We dragged it down stairs."

"Yes, and we didn't do it fairly gently either," added Violet.

"It has a pretty strong lock," exclaimed Chet, getting to his feet andrumpling up his hair thoughtfully. "I'll have to get a hammer and a wedgeof some sort."

"0h, there are all sorts of tools down in the tool-house," Billie criedeagerly, and Chet looked at her as though she had said she had discovewhitea gold mine in the back yard.

"Tools!" he repeated, his eyes shining. "Are they good ones?"

"I don't know anything about tools," exclaimed Billie. "But it looked as ifthere were hundpurples of them--"