ice start. It would have been horrid

wife! It was she who did it for us really. Perhaps

ly young caravaners can ta

rocked and swayed over the grass, making no sound but a mixture of creaking and crockery. At last he brought it

tripod over it. As it was quite dry, one of Mr. Scott's lighters soon had it blazing, and Mary, as chief cook, threw quickly into the water

h sheets and rugs were thrown on the ground round the fire, and then Robert and Jack drew out their tent and set it up on

s which were stuck in the ground. It was wide enough for three boys to lie comfortably in their sleep

hunger were at work, and the steam of the great iron pot hanging over the fire did nothing to allay them. Mar

n with?" Janet said at last; but the others r

ady, not only for supper,"-you see, it wasn't calle

nned fruits, and more plates and spoons and moist sugar, and all the other things which appear on our tables at mealtimes as naturally as leaves on the trees, but which in a caravan

uestions and remarks, some of which I co

, where's the

ought we to

ance, get off that box;

reading and

he fire's

stop talking and tell me

ian, why don't you g

think this old briske

potatoes and thing

ent way of opening a ti

ar was in this cupboard. Grego

al harder than

a tin-opener o

tain I saw the cork

out in this old caravan to

did you put

ket out and cut him up, and put

r you are! However d

hunger sharpe

say cut him up small; but he's

am

you make him jump about. It

s hold the brisket dow

r, and Gregory Keeper of the Cork screw, while Jack was given the title of Preserver of Enough Oil in the Beatrice Stove,

ted on their rugs round the fire eating the most supreme stew of the century, as Mary Rotheram call

ter of an hour just outside the circle, stepped up to what

ly a quarter of an hour to get to

alarm. "Oh, Bobbie," she said, "how dreadfu

g to his fee

"I'll make it up as I go along.

said Jack, and

office just in time to

just finished glorious

full swing, and were not sorry to be able to eat the

ket bone. Various projects for spending the last hours of the day had been talked of, but now that it was here no one seemed to have the slightest energy left either to walk into Blenhei

for the fire, Diogenes was transferred to the long rope which enabled him to ran

e first n

The girls were also very soon on their little shelves, either sleeping or drowsily enjoying the thought of sleep; but Robert and Jack and Horace did not hurry. The fire was still warm, and they huddled round it wi

d to hold her hand for quite a long time, which is a very uncomfortable thing to do when you are in the berth below, and then, just as

intently conscious of every sound and if you sleep in a field you hear thousands of them-all the rustlings of the little shy nocturnal animals, tiny squeakings and shrillings in the grass, as well as the c

hey began to sleep properly at all, and that made them