there came a long-drawn shout from down shore.

"I've got 'em!"

"I thought so," nodded Miss Elting.

Jim came back lugging a pack soon thereafter. The water was running
from the pack, under whose weight the driver was staggering.

"Found them in the river," he explained. "Had drifted into a cove. So
heavy I couldn't carry more than one at a time. The other packs are
open and the stuff spread all over the cove. I gathered it up as well
as I could. You'll have to give me a rope to tie the things up, or
else bring them back in wads."

"In the river?" cried the girls in chorus.

"Well, I swum!" muttered Janus, pausing from his labors long enough to
consult his whiskers. "Things are moving kind of fast."

"Oh, this is nothing, nothing at all," laughed Crazy Jane. "You will
think things are moving after you have been out with the Meadow-Brook
Girls for a time. Things always do move when we are around. Look out
that they don't move so fast as to sweep you with them. My! but this
is a heavy pack."

The girls had taken the wet pack from Jim and were dragging it up the
bluff. Janus tied this and two other packs on the back of one horse,
then began making ready for doing the game with the other animal. By
the time he was ready, Jim had returned with still another wet bundle