CHAPTER II. WENONAH.
When they took the train to go West to Michigan, Lois and Hal were very much interested in the sleeping car. They had never seen one before, and when their father tucked them into two opposite upper berths that night, they hardly wanted to go to sleep, it was such fun to peek out at each other between the heavy curtains.
The children's heads were still full of the subject of the Indians. They felt they were on their way to the home of the red man, and Lois said to her father:
"What would the Indians have thought of these little upstairs beds?"
Hal was leaning out into the aisle from his couch. "They'd have said 'Wow! wow!'" he cried.
"Softly," suggested his father. "Not only the Indians would have been surprised. Think of the first white people going slowly and patiently across the country in their covered wagons, taking weeks to travel over the distance we cover in a day. Isn't it wonderful to live now instead of then?"
"But that was the most fun," said Hal. "I've seen pictures of the Indians galloping across the plain to attack the wagons, but the men had their guns and they saved themselves and drove the Indians off."
Mrs. Robbins had the berth underneath Harold and she looked out between her curtains.
"You know the sooner you go to sleep, children, the sooner you will see Lake Michigan," she said.