“We can make nets for our hair,” said Nelly. “And look. Uncle, here are some lovely long devil’s aprons we have found to make us fringy tails.”
“You will give us some pieces of net to drape over our shoulders, won’t you, Cap’n?” begged Anne. “We shall be so trimmed-up and beautiful that the old bathing suits will hardly show.”
“Oh Anne! What fun it will be!” said Nelly. “I’m glad we are going to dress alike.”
“I’m glad too,” said Anne. “It’s lots more fun to make your own costume for a party than to wear one that is all ready for you, isn’t it?”
“Here comes Dick,” said the Captain. “Don’t leave your bundle, Anne.” Anne picked up the tissue package which she had left lying on the beach and had almost forgotten.
“Don’t forget to come over early, and plan to spend the night,” she said to Nelly. “We will dress in the bath house. Good-bye, Nelly!”
“Good-bye, Anne!” the girls waved and smiled until the canoe was out of the Cove.
CHAPTER XV
TANTE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY
Tante’s birthday was a beautiful, bright blue day; what the towns-folk called a “real Harbor day.” You will notice as you go around the world, that the real day of any place you visit is always the best kind of day one ever sees there. Perhaps the same thing is true of people.