“Huh! That was nothing! Now, watch me do some real stunts in swimming,” laughed he.
“Not to-day, Billy. Go and dress now and leave your fancy swimming for another time,” advised Mrs. Remington.
Billy obeyed but his face expressed his reluctance.
Meantime Fred was sure that he could overturn a canoe in the water and right it again if some one would stand by while he tried the difficult stunt. Captain Ed offered his services.
While Fred was striving to accomplish this deed, some one suggested a “splashing match” and before a place of dry safety could be reached by the grown-ups who had been sitting near the edge of the water, every one was liberally sprinkled by the merry water nymphs. So much noise did they make indeed, that Aunt Edith called for more quiet.
“Oh, but noise is part of the game, you know!” retorted Billy, who was watching from the sunny rocks since he could not take part in the fun.
The match ended when Paul ducked Edith under water. As soon as she could sputter, she wildly denounced him, but Billy and Dudley laughed heartily as they told her to “get even.”
Paul hurriedly got out of Edith’s way for she had very good muscle for a girl and Paul had been made aware of its power several times previously to this day.
Elizabeth was floating serenely when Edith confided to her that she had kept her eyes open when Paul unexpectedly pushed her under water.
“And it felt so strange that I’m going to try it again.”