"Where are the boys?" she asked her mother. "Out in the barn," was the answer. "They took some big sheets of paper with them." "They must be going to make kites," Nan said. But when she saw what Bert and Harry were doing, she knew it was not a kite game they were planning. For in letters, made with a black stick on the sheets of paper, Nan read the words: FIVE-PIN SHOW COME ONE COME ALL "Oh, what is it?" she cried. "Please tell me, Bert!" "We're going to have a show," said Harry, "and we're going to charge five pins to come in." "Oh, may I be in it?" asked Nan. "I'll do anything you want me to. Mayn't I be in it?" "Shall we let her?" asked Bert of his country cousin. "Sure," said Harry kindly. "We boys won't be enough. We'll have to have the girls." "Where's it going to be?" asked Nan. "Here in the barn," her brother said. "We're going to make a cage for Snap--he's going to be the lion." "Can Snoop be one of the animals, too?" she inquired. "Yes, Snoop will be the black tiger," decided Harry. "I only hope he keeps awake, and growls now and then. That will make it seem real." "Snoop sometimes growls when he gets a piece of meat," suggested Nan. "Then we'll give him meat in the show," decided Bert. He and Harry finished making the show bills, and then began to get ready for the performance. With some old sheets they made a curtain across one corner of the barn, in front of the haymow. Nan helped with this, as she could use a needle, thread and thimble better than could the boys. Then Tom Mason, Mabel Herold and some other of the country boys and girls came over, and they were allowed to be in the show. Bert was to be a clown, and he put on an old suit, turned inside out, and whitened his face with starch, which he begged from Martha. Harry was to be the wild animal trainer, and show off the black tiger, which was Snoop, and the fierce lion in a cage, which lion was only Snap, the dog. The show was not to take place until the next day, as Bert said the performers needed time for practice. But some of the "show bills" were fastened up about the village streets, and many boys and girls said they would come if they could get the five pins. Finally all was ready for the little play. Flossie was made door-keeper and took up the admission pins. Freddie wanted to be a fireman in the show, so they let him do this. His mother made a little red coat for him, and he had his toy fire engine that pumped real water. "But you mustn't squirt it on anyone in the audience," cautioned Bert. "No, I'll just squirt it on the wild animals if they get bad," said the little fellow. Nan was to be a bare-back rider, and Harry had made her a wooden steed from a saw-horse, with rope for reins. Nan perched herself up on the saw-horse, and pretended she was galloping about the ring. A number of boys and girls came to the show, each one bringing the five pins, so that Flossie had many of them to stick on the cushion which was her cash-box.