"Certainly not," said Bert; "there is always a little lake of quiet water around ocean places."
Aunt Sarah came out now, all dressed for a drive.
"Well, my dears," she said, "you are going to Ocean Cliff to-morrow, so you can invite all your Meadow Brook friends to a little lawn party to-day. I'm going down now to the village to order some good things for you. I want you all to have a nice time this afternoon."
"I'm going to give some of my books to Nettie," said Flossie, "and some of my paper dolls too."
"Yes. Nettie has not many things to play with," agreed Nan, "and we can get plenty more."
"I'm going to get all my birds' nests together," said Bert, "and that pretty white birch bark to make picture frames for Christmas."
"I've got lovely pressed flowers to put on Christmas post-cards," said Nan. "I'm going to mount them on plain white cards with little verses written for each friend. Won't that be pretty?"
Then what a time there was packing up again! Of course Mrs. Bobbsey had expected to go, and had most of the big things ready but the children had so many souvenirs.
"John gave me this," cried Freddie, pulling a great big pumpkin in his express wagon down to the house. "And I'm going to bring it to Aunt Emily."
"Oh, how could we bring that!" protested Nan.