He put the loops of two strings over his thumbs, and pulled his hands
apart. Then two pieces of cardboard, strung on the strings, began to
whirl about very fast.

"Why, that's like a pin-wheel!" exclaimed Grandpa Ford.

"I call it a buzzy-buzzer," laughed Russ. "I was going to make a
wind-mill, but I didn't have enough things here in the train. I'll make
you a wind-mill when we get to Great Hedge, Grandpa."

After a while a colored man, dressed in a spotless white suit, came
through the car, calling:

"First call for dinner in the dining-car! First call for dinner!"

"What does he mean--first call?" asked Violet, who, as usual, was the
one who asked the first question.

"He means that dinner is now ready in the dining-car," said Mr. Bunker.
"You see the car is rather small, and every one can't eat at once. So
they take turns, so to speak."

"I wish we could eat first," sighed Vi. "I'm terrible hungry!"

"So'm I," said Margy.

"Me, too," added Mun Bun. He had gone back to his seat, after taking
something from the train boy's basket, and he had cuddled up by himself.
What he had he showed to no one, and now, when he heard that dinner was