The first thing they did upon arriving was to gather enough wood to make a fire.
Then they hunted up a large clean-looking stone and put it in the fire to heat.
While this was heating some of the girls gathered long blades of strong grass and wove two mats the size of the top of the stone.
As soon as the stone was heated, they pulled it out of the fire and dug a big hole in the sand in which they placed it. Around and over it they put hot ashes. They had brought a supply of nice fresh fish already cleaned and seasoned. These they placed between the grass mats and then covered the mats over with more ashes.
"Do you mean to say that the fish will cook like that?" asked Mary Lee.
"Indeed they will," said Cousin Edna, "and they will be so delicious you will wish you could have them cooked like that all the time."
"How long will it take to cook them that way?" asked Letty.
"About an hour," replied Cousin Edna. "In the meantime, we can all gather wood for our big fire tonight. We are going to roast corn and toast marshmallows this evening."
"We have a lot of wood already," said Letty. "See the big pile over there!"
"Bless you, child, that's nothing. We have to have enough to keep the fire going all night."