"I see you! I see you!" laughed the delighted little girl, and she was so excited over finding Nan that she never realized she had only a few steps to carry the basket of eggs. Flossie covered those few steps safely, and the eggs were put away in the closet by Aunt Sarah, later to be made into puddings and cakes for the Bobbsey twins. "When are we going to the Bolton County Fair?" asked Bert that evening after supper, when he and Harry were resting after their sport in catching bullfrogs. "And I'm going to ride on a lion!" declared Freddie. "We might go over to the fair to-morrow," said Mr. Bobbsey. "Do you folks want to go?" he asked his brother and Aunt Sarah. "I don't believe I'll have time," answered Mr. Bobbsey's brother. "Nor I," said Aunt Sarah. "I have a lot of cooking to do." "Then I'm going to stay at home and help you," offered the mother of the Bobbsey twins. "Oh, can't we go to the fair?" wailed Flossie and Freddie, almost ready to cry. "Of course you may go!" replied Mother Bobbsey. "I was going to say that daddy could take you children--Harry may go, may he not?" she asked his mother. "Oh, yes." "Hurray!" cried Harry, and Bert and Nan echoed his cry of joy. So it was arranged that Mr. Bobbsey would take the children to the Bolton County Fair, there to see the many wonderful things of which they had dreamed for days and nights. The Bolton County Fair was one of the largest in that part of the state. Every year it was held, and farmers from many miles away brought their largest pumpkins and squashes, and their longest ears of corn, hoping to win prizes with them. The farmers' wives brought samples of their needlework, such as bedquilts, lace or embroidery, and samples of their cooking and preserving. The farm boys and girls made things or raised something to exhibit at the fair. Besides this there were new kinds of machinery for the farmers to look at, such as windmills and plows and electrical appliances to be used on the farms. Men who raised horses and cattle took their best specimens to the fair to show them for prizes. Then there were to be automobile races and horse races, and there were many amusements from the big merry-go-round to the little tents and booths where one could throw baseballs at dolls or toss rings over canes. There were also booths and tents where candy, ice-cream, lemonade and cider were sold, as well as places to eat. "Oh, it's wonderful!" cried Nan, as she and her brothers, her sister, Harry and her father got out of their automobile and walked through the big gates into the fair grounds. "Don't you like it, Bert?" "Sure! It's fine!" "Let's go over and look at the airship," proposed Harry. "And the balloon," added Bert. "Do you s'pose I could go up in the balloon?" he asked his father. "No, I don't suppose you could--I wouldn't like you to," said Mr. Bobbsey. "But why, Dad? The balloon is fast to the ground. It can't get away!"