“Didn’t you get some yourself—hypocrite!” declaimed Alice.
“Natalie doesn’t need it,” went on Alice, as she found her tube, besides a little vanity box containing a tiny pad of wool and—well they all carried the same thing. Rice powder they asserted the box contained.
“I suppose the boys will be there waiting for us,” suggested Marie.
“Yes,” assented Alice. “But I do wish they’d let us do all we can for ourselves. It’s no fun to have everything done for you.”
“Again the true Camp Fire Girl speaketh!” murmured Natalie. “I rather imagine we’ll find enough to do.”
“Did you ask the man to have all our things at the place where the tent is to go up?” asked Mabel.
“Yes,” asserted Alice, “and he promised. Also to see that our ‘grub’ as I believe the camp-term for dinner is, was on hand. He said the tent platforms would be laid, and all we would have to do would be to put up the tents and cots. I guess it will be easy.”
“Easy is as easy does,” misquoted Marie. “Oh, we must make sure that Mrs. Bonnell has everything she wants. Let’s go over and talk with her now. There is always so much to do at the last minute.”
Behold then, the next morning, four eager Camp Fire Girls with the pink tint of excitement in their cheeks, assembled at the station of the railroad that was to take them to Green Lake. They had their suit cases, trunks having been sent on ahead with bed clothing and other necessities. They also had a miscellaneous collection of boxes and bundles—things that they had forgotten until the last minute.
“But isn’t it a glorious day!” cried Natalie, as she waltzed around the platform with Marie as a partner.
“Most glorious!” agreed Alice. “Oh, here comes our train, and I know I’ve forgotten to put in my tennis slippers to use in the canoe!”
“Too late now,” decided the Guardian. “You can write for them. Now, girls, we’ll try to get seats together.”
Then the train steamed in, they hurried aboard, amid many admiring glances from other passengers, and soon they were on their way to the camp in the woods.
“Wo-he-lo!” sang Natalie softly, as the train gathered speed. “Wo-he-lo!”
“No, I remember Jack saying you should fasten the other rope first.”
“Are you sure the pegs are driven in tightly enough?”