The remainder of the furnishings consisted of four camp-chairs, a plain deal table, a chest of drawers that contained the chinaware and cooking utensils, and a small icebox. This front apartment had a plank floor, made in sections.
It was a rough enough shelter, and the camping arrangements were crude; nevertheless, the Corner House girls saw nothing but fun ahead of them, and they were as busy as bees all that day "getting settled."
There were pleasant people in the other tents of Camp Willowbend, but none of them chanced to be Milton people. There were several girls of ages corresponding to those of the Corner House girls, and the latter were sure they would find these neighbors good sport.
The Kenways were so busy at noon that they only "took a bite in their fists," as good Mrs. MacCall would have expressed it. Ruth had been wise enough to buy some cooked food in the village before they came over to the camp, but she learned from some of the ladies in the tents that there was a woman in the neighborhood who baked bread to sell, and sometimes cookies and pies.
"You go to see Mrs. Bobster. She's the nicest old lady!" declared one city matron. "Make your arrangements for bread now, Miss Kenway, for after she takes orders for as many as she can well supply, she wouldn't agree to bake another loaf. She has a real New England conscience, and she wouldn't promise to bake a single biscuit more than she knows she can get in her oven."
The directions for finding Mrs. Bobster interested and amused the Corner House girls.
"She is the little old woman who lives in the shoe," laughed their informant. "You can't miss the house, if you go along the beach road toward town. It's just beyond the other camp."
"Oh!" cried Dot, eagerly, "_I_ want to see the lady who lives in a shoe. She must have lots of children, for they were a great bother."
"And," said Tess, "do you suppose she _does_ whip them all soundly and send them to bed with a piece of bread to eat?"
"We'll discover all that," promised Ruth, and soon after luncheon, having fixed up the tent, and set to rights their things that the expressman had brought over from the Spoondrift bungalow, the four sisters set out to find Mrs. Bobster.