Vacation with the Tucker Twins

taken herself off, very much concerned for fear we were not going to have a good supper for "that there so-called 'paw'." But we did have a very good one by careful division of labour.

d Mr. Tucker, also tired and hungry and very dirty after a trip on a soft coal train. Miss Cox had come all the way from the mountains of Albema

ess for me to come down here as a ch

y, I am going to insist upon your being a baby for a few days until you get yourself all rested u

I bid to bring your breakfas

unpack for you

will do for you, but please

month of June, beginning just as soon as her labours were over at Gresham; and having had no rest at all she was in a state o

teen to get up all by their lonesomes," said Mr. Tucker, giving a sigh o

real cooking," t

more tedious than cooking. I love to cook but I hate the scullery part." Then I was sorry I had sa

ifferent appearance than it had in the morning when poor Sleepy had been concealed in the s

ing so I can bring your brea

ack yourself, but let

l slumber as peacefully as he did," said I, lowering the striped awn

ou. I only hope I can get und

on the beach with him while he finished his cigar. How pleasant the night was after the terrible glare of the day! For the firs

eavens that c

dark and d

ws the decl

elts beneath

ge. You do not seem to have your usual spirits. I bet a horse

on't think it

hing but in love with it. You question now how anyone could be contented without trees or grass, and in a week's time you wonder what is the good of trees and grass, anyhow.

oudless sky and a certain flatness everywhere had given me a sensation of extreme heaviness and dreariness; but now that the blessed darkness had come and I no longer had to scrooch up my eyes, I began to feel that it was not such a stale, flat, unprofitable place after all. And it was certainly very pleasant out there, pacing up and down on th

cing out, having fini

n. Dee broke two cups-I broke a saucer!" exclaimed Du

ht for sleeping and I think all of us had b

o go to bed before they are ready." And with that they flopped themselves down on the sand, Dum with

oing to do with th

them stumbling to the cottage and up the steps to the east porch, where they were with difficulty persuade

om, and no matter how much you may protect a porch, it is still out-of-doors. We were in bed by nine o'clock and we were asleep almost before we were in bed, and while my sleep was perfectly dreamless I was, in a measure, conscious of a delicious well being, a