“A sand mill. I saw some in a store. You put a lot of sand in a box and the sand runs out and it hits a paddle wheel, like a wheel in a mill, and the sand makes the wheel go around. I’m going to make one.”
“I don’t believe you can,” Janet said.
“Sure, I can!” asserted Ted.
So he began work on what he hoped would be a sand mill, and Janet laid a cloth down on the beach to put her dolls on it.
“I’m giving them a sun bath,” she explained. “I want ’em to get nice and tanned so everybody will know they’ve been at the seashore.”
“Pooh, dolls can’t tan!” declared Ted.
“They can so!” retorted his sister.
They might have had a little dispute then, but Trouble went too near the edge of the waves, with his shoes and stockings on, and got his feet wet. Janet had to take off his things and this kept her so busy that she had no time to argue with her brother.
At last the Curlytops were at Sunset Beach, and they loved it very much. It was a wonderful place to spend a summer vacation.
Ted was working away at his sand mill, Janet was playing with her dolls, and Trouble was at work digging a well for a “nellifunt,” far enough up the beach to be out of the reach of the waves.