“I never thought what they would do,” returned Dot.
“Will you have nests to live in like ours in the cherry-tree?” asked Betty.
“No, dearie, I am planning to build little houses that will hold about six or eight bunks, and a locker for each child. These houses will have a floor and a roof with posts to hold it up, but the walls will be made of canvas curtains that we can roll up when we want the house wide open. The long building where the children will gather to eat or have games, will be centrally located if we build it in the valley between the three hills,” explained Aunt Selina.
“Are we going to give the camp a name?” asked Edith.
“Why, we hadn’t thought of that—we can use the name ‘Happy Hills,’ couldn’t we?” said Mrs. Talmage.
“Nobody will know the camp is any different then. The place has always been called Happy Hills, so how is a stranger going to know that it is the same where the children are living?” said Dot.
“The name ‘Hills’ sounds all right, but you can’t call the big house in the valley by the name of ‘Hills’; we ought to have a new name for that so the children will know what place we mean when we talk about the dining-room,” suggested Norma.
“Just say ‘Valley where the long house is,’” said Edith.
“That doesn’t sound nice, a bit! Everything else we have have such nice names,” complained Ruth.
“But, why do you children want a name for the valley and one for the children’s camps?” asked Aunt Selina.