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. [Illustration: ABOVE HER HEAD FLOATED THE BASKET WITH LILY IN IT. _Six Little Bunkers at Aunt Jo's.--Page 102_] "I can make things as good as Russ, even if I can't whistle like him," she said. "This is fun! Don't you like it, Lily?" Of course Lily couldn't answer and say that she did, but if dolls like airship rides I'm sure this one of Rose's did. Up and along floated the balloons, lifting the basket, and then, all of a sudden, something happened. CHAPTER XI VI IS LOST Rose said, afterward, that it was not the fault of Alexis, though the barking of the big dog made her jump and lose her hold on the string that was fast to the basket in which the doll Lily rode as if in an airship. But that is what happened. As Rose was walking along, letting the balloons float over her head, and giving a ride to Lily, the big dog came bounding out of the side yard. He wanted to play with Rose, and he raced toward her, jumping up and down. Rose was afraid he would jump up and put his paws on her, and Alexis was so big that when he did this to any of the six little Bunkers he almost always knocked them down. In fact, he had knocked Mun Bun and Margy down more than once, but only in fun, and he had not hurt them. "Go away, Alexis! Now go away!" exclaimed Rose, as she held the string above her head. "I can't play with you now, because I got to give Lily an airship ride. Go away, Alexis!" But Alexis didn't want to go away! He barked and he danced around, and he kept coming closer and closer to Rose, until he really almost bumped into her. And then it happened. Rose let go of the string, by which she was holding the basket that had Lily in it, and up it shot, high in the air, pulled by the gas-filled toy balloons. There were six of them, extra big ten-cent ones, and they could easily lift the small doll in the basket. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" cried Rose, three times. "Look what you made me do, Alexis! Oh! Oh!" And yet, afterward, Rose said it wasn't the dog's fault. "I oughtn't to have taken anybody's balloon but mine, and then they wouldn't be lost," said the little girl sadly. For that is what happened.