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"There '11 be prizes for everybody!" repeated 

 Eleanor. 



"If they can get them," added Buddy, who had 

 come back with a load of fruit-jars. 



"Twenty-five cents is the 

 first prize," said Margaret, 

 who was dipping the jars 

 into a pail of water ; "and 

 ten cents is the second, 

 Eleanor, and we ?ve got to 

 stay out while the judges 

 are making up their minds." 

 "And we must n't put our 

 names on the flowers till 

 afterward," said Mary. 



"Oh, they 're coming! " 

 said Buddy Thomas, ex- 

 citedly, thrusting his head 

 from behind ' the screen. 

 "The judges are here, and 

 there 's lots of people com- 

 ing up on the piazza. Don- 

 ald 's down there by the gate, taking the admission. 

 Are you ready ? " 



"No ! " said Mary, coming out from behind the 



