"I did!" cried Laddie. "Did I do anything funny?"
"Yes," went on Mr. Bunker, laughing. "It was in the winter, and mother had just got you a new pair of red mittens. You had played out in the snow with them, and after supper you put them behind the stove in the kitchen to dry.
"Then you went to bed, but later in the evening, when Norah was fixing the fire for the night, you came tramping down the back stairs. You frightened Norah, and when she asked you what you wanted you didn't say a word. You just took your little red mittens and carried them back up the stairs to bed with you."
"I did!" exclaimed Laddie. "I never knew it."
"No, when a person walks in his sleep he generally doesn't know what he is doing," his father concluded.
That evening Captain Ben gave the children a box of marshmallow candies, and they had a fire on the beach to roast them. The children thought this was great fun.
The sailor had cut long sticks for the children. The sticks were sharply pointed on one end, and when the fire had burned down, so there was a good bed of hot, glowing coals, Mother Bunker said:
"Now each of you put a marshmallow on the sharp end of your sticks and hold it over the coals. Be careful not to hold them too close, and don't let the candies catch fire, as they sometimes do if you are not careful."
"I know how, 'cause I've roasted marshmallows before," said Rose.
"So've I. And once my candy caught fire," remarked Russ.