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148 at home and Aunt Polly read it to them while Linda was getting supper.

"Mother's coming!" cried Bobby, meeting Jud on his way to the barn.

"That's fine," said Jud heartily. Then his face fell.

"But you don't want to go home yet!" he urged. "Vacation isn't over so soon, is it? There's lots we planned to do we haven't done."

"Mother's going to stay a week," said Bobby happily. "School doesn't open for two weeks, but we have to go home and get ready. Say, Jud, I didn't miss Mother—not such a lot, that is—but now I miss her dreadful much."

When Mother Blossom came she found all the children in the car with Aunt Polly to meet her. And the things they did during that one week, from another picnic to having all the new friends they had made at Brookside come to supper, including Mr. Sparks—well, Linda said there was more going on than there had been all through the summer, and Linda ought to have known!

"I s'pect Aunt Polly will miss us," said