Even a plain every-day picnic, where you eat sandwiches and cakes under a tree, is fun. But on this picnic, the children were going to help catch crayfish, which look like small lobsters. Then they were planning to cook them over a camp-fire.
The last child nestled into the hay and they were off.
CHAPTER VI.
A VISIT TO SKANSEN
"I want to see the Lapps and the reindeer. Aren't we almost there?" said Anders to his mother.
"Yes, little son, we are nearly at the top of the hill," replied Mrs. Lund.
The Lund family were on their way to Skansen, a famous park near Stockholm. Soon the car stopped and every one scrambled out.
"We are so high up that we can see the harbour," said Erik, as he trudged along beside his sister with one of the luncheon baskets hung over his arm. At their feet lay the city of islands with its ribbon-like canals of blue. Away on the horizon, the water of the bay sparkled in the sun, like a huge amethyst. The children halted a minute to look back on the fair scene.