“Don’t be a goosey! We’re going up the river, not down,” said the more observant Tess.
“Well, then!” sighed Dot, relieved. “It isn’t so bad, is it? Of course, we’ll stop somewhere.”
“But it will soon be dinnertime,” said her sister. “And I guess Ruth and Aggie won’t know where we’ve gone to.”
In fact, nobody about the tent colony had noticed the cedar boat floating away with the two girls in it—to say nothing of the dog!
[CHAPTER XVI—THE GYPSIES AGAIN]
When Ruth shouted to Agnes from the kitchen, where she was frying crabs, to call the children, Agnes dropped the book she had been reading and remembered for the first time that she had neglected to tie the boat.
“Oh, Ruth!” she shrieked. “See what I’ve done!”
Ruth came to the opening in the front of the tent, flushed and disheveled, demanding:
“Well, what? This old fat snaps so!”
“The boat!” cried Agnes.