"Pooh!" Cindy made a face at her brother. "How do you know I did?"
"Maybe that was someone else snoring?"
"I don't snore!"
"Better get some breakfast into you," Pete said.
Everyone else had finished breakfast. While Cindy ate, Pete and Jed staked the work horses and mules in fresh grass and saddled Sunshine and the roan ponies. Alec started washing the dishes, and as soon as she was finished, Cindy handed him her plate.
"Hey!" he protested. "You might at least wash your own!"
"I have to pack a lunch."
"Not today," said her father, who had come back and overheard. "Everyone's been working hard, and everyone deserves a rest. We'll eat in a restaurant."
When everything was ready, Pete mounted his roan pony and Jed swung up on Sunshine. After an argument, which Cindy won, about who was going to sit the saddle and hold the reins, Alec and Cindy rode double on Sparkle. The mules and horses had also worked hard, and they needed a rest.