Two tents, side by side, were given up to the party of girls, a little log cabin being provided for Mrs. Corner and Miss Helen. This consisted of two rooms, one with a fireplace where Mrs. Corner could have a fire on damp days, a thing which she felt would be very necessary. There was another cabin, a larger one, in the centre of the camp, where the campers could congregate around a huge log fire on cool evenings or could sit on wet days. It was really a charming place with plenty of comfortable chairs, a big table piled with books and magazines, rugs on the floor, and at the windows pretty chintz curtains. A porch ran around on all sides, and here those who had already arrived were congregated.
“Oh, I am so hungry,” said Jean when they had stowed away a few of their belongings. “I wonder when we shall have supper.”
“Suppose you and Jack go and find out,” proposed Nan.
This was a mission highly relished by the twins, who after a few minutes came back gleefully. “Supper in fifteen minutes, and we’re going to have flapjacks and maple syrup,” cried Jean.
“Yes, and ham and eggs and fried potatoes. There’s a colored cook and she knows just how to cook the kind of things we all like; we asked her.” Jack gave this information.
“And we eat out-of-doors on the verandah of the big cabin. We saw the tables all set,” said Jean.
“Lights are out at nine,” Jack went on, “so we can all go to bed at the same time. We get up real early; no one wants to sit up late because they are so healthy tired.”
Nan laughed. “If they are all as healthy tired as I am I don’t blame them.”
“There are such funny-looking people here,” Jean continued; “you can’t tell what they really look like. I saw two or three coming along from the lake; they had on great big farm hats and bloomers. They had oars or something over their shoulders and they looked like huntresses or Amazons or some such thing.”
“We’ll look just the same ourselves once we get going,” Mary Lee told her. “It must be time for supper, girls. Let’s go over.”