rapidly--"

"Oh, do try to be sensible," cried Mollie, for the second time. "If you
would only have some patience--"

"Never heard the word," declared Will with a grin, and Mollie made a face
at him--a very disrespectful face.

"Well, but when--" Will was insisting plaintively when Betty interrupted
him with a cry of delight.

"Look, people," she said, breaking away from them and running up the
rather steep bank lightly.

"This isn't the spot we picked out, but it's twice as pretty. Big rocks
for tables--and everything."

"Especially everything," commented Allen, his eyes twinkling.

"Oh, boy!" cried Roy ecstatically, setting down the hamper that had been
his share and beginning to examine its contents without further delay.
"Chicken! Ham sandwiches! Biscuits! Jelly--"

"Say, get out of that!" cried Frank, snatching the hamper away with a
vigor born of fear. "What kind of manners do you call that?"

"They're as good as yours," retorted the outraged Roy hotly. "Besides,
there's another hamper, isn't there?"

"Goodness, they seem to think they can have a whole basket apiece," cried