DIAMOND J UBILEE JONES 59

anything to sell or to show were proclaiming
its merits at the tops of their voices; the public
was enjoying itself in a very loud fashion; in
fact, everybody was doing everything in the

noisiest manner possible, and the discord of,

sounds produced was deafening and delightful to
the twins.

‘Isn't it lovely?’ said Kitty to Micky, as she
skipped about; but Micky did not hear, for he was
engaged in a scornful colloquy with the owner of
the hand-worked wooden horses.

‘ Think I'm going to ride on one of those things P’
he was demanding indignantly. ‘Do you take
me for a kid P’

‘Emmeline,’ clamoured Kitty, ‘when may we
go and see the darling elephants?’

‘You girls can do what you like,’ said Micky
grandly, ‘ but l’m off for a motor-drive.’

Aunt Grace had provided each twin with a
shilling, and Emmeline with a florin to spend at
the Fair, so that there was plenty of money for
such luxuries as motor-drives.

The motor-drive, or rather several motor-drives,
and the call on the darling elephants were gone
through in due course, and then Micky fell under
the spell of the cocoanut-shy.

‘ Do come on, Micky I’ entreated Emmeline,
after he had made many unsuccessful shots; ‘I
believe they're fixed '