“So am I,” said Josephine. “Dear me! my rubbers are up in my chamber. Won’t you go up and get them for me, Flora?”
Flora went up stairs and got the rubbers for her, and Josephine thanked her for her kindness. The boys were waiting in front of the house with their fish poles on their shoulders, by this time, and, as boys always are when they are going fishing, were very much in a hurry.
“O, dear me!” exclaimed Josephine, when she had put on her rubbers. “I left my sack in the orchard. Please to go and get it for me, Flora, and I will make Frank wait for us till you return with it.”
“Yes, I will get it;” and she bounded away for the missing garment.
“We never shall get to the river at this rate,” said Edward, when his sister had told him the cause of the new delay. “It all comes of having girls go with us.”
“There is time enough, Master Edward,” added John, the young man who worked in the garden and helped take care of the horses. “You will be tired enough before dinner time.”
“Here comes Flora. She is a dear good girl. I am very much obliged to you,” said Josephine, as she took the sack. “Now I will be ever so much more obliged to you if you will go into the house and get me one of those nice doughnuts, such as we had for supper last night. I am almost starved.”
“I think you had better not go a-fishing then,” added Edward, bluntly.
“Why not? Can’t I be hungry and go a-fishing?”
“We don’t want to wait all day for you.”