"I feel tired all over," said Debby.
"I can't move my arms without groaning," complained Amanda.
"I'm as stiff as a poker," added Kitty mournfully.
Sarah looked wise. "It's the swimming," she declared.
"Trying to swim," Blue Bonnet corrected her. "I'm not tired or stiff."
"If trying to swim has made us feel this way, why doesn't Sarah make her little moan?" demanded Kitty.
Sarah looked still wiser. "I was so stiff before that I think swimming just limbered me up," she explained delightedly. Sarah could not help feeling a little very human satisfaction at the consciousness that she had borne her sufferings with far greater courage than the others now displayed.
"I couldn't ride a mile," groaned Kitty.
"Nor I!" declared both Debby and Amanda.
"Then, Señorita Blake, do we go by our lones?" asked Blue Bonnet.