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 *tening them all together so they could not become separated, the Doll Lady next cut the string that held them. The balloons started up, pulling the bears with them. Slowly but surely they rose higher and higher, now this way, now that, looking like mere specks against the sky, till they passed out of sight.

A long-drawn sigh was heard from the girls as their pets disappeared.

"Poor little bears!" sighed tender-hearted Janie. "Will anything bad happen to them?"

"Bad? Mercy no! Nothing bad can possibly happen to them," said the Doll Lady consolingly. "They will drop in clover by and by. The man who invented those balloons told me exactly what would take place. The air will