a big fort, getting inside it
and throwing snowballs at a make-believe enemy on the outside.

All that day and the next the six little Bunkers played around Great
Hedge, having fun in the snow. Sometimes Mother and Grandma came out to
watch them. Grandpa Ford and Daddy Bunker went to town in a cutter, with
the merry jingling bells _on_ the horse, and Daddy went home for a week
on business.

Nothing more was said about the ghost for several days, and even Russ
and Rose seemed to forget there was such a make-believe chap. They
coasted downhill, played, and had fun in the snow and were very glad
indeed that they had come to Grandpa Ford's.

Then, about a week after their arrival, there came a cold, blustery day
when it was not nice to be out.

"Let's go up to the attic and make something with the old spinning
wheels," said Russ to Laddie. "Maybe we can make an airship."

"All right," agreed Laddie. "Only we won't sail up very high in 'em,
'cause we might fall down."

Rose was out in the kitchen, watching Grandma Ford make an apple pie,
and Rose was singing away, for she was trying to make a pie also--a
little one with pieces left over from her grandmother's crust.

Up to the attic went Russ and Laddie, and Mun Bun followed them.

"I want to come and watch you," he said, shaking his pretty, bobbed hair
around his head.

"Shall we let him?" asked Laddie.

"Oh, yes, he can watch us," said Russ, who was always kind to his little
brother.

Grandma Ford had said the boys could play with the spinning wheels if
they did not break them, and this Russ and Laddie took care not to do.

"First we must make 'em so both wheels will turn around together at the
same time alike," said Russ.

"How are you going to do that?" Laddie asked, while Mun Bun sat down in
a corner near the big chimney to watch.

"Well, we'll put a belt on 'em, same as the belt on mother's
sewing-machine. Don't you know? That has a round leather belt on the big
wheel, and when you turn the big wheel the little wheel goes. Same as on
our tricycle, only there are chains on those."

"Oh, yes, I know," said Laddie.

They found some string and made a belt of it, putting it around each of
the two big spinning wheels. Then, by turning one, the other, at some
distance away, could be made to go around.

"This is just like an airship!" cried Laddie. "We'll make believe this
is the engine, and we'll go up in it."

This the boys did, even pretending to tak