so we can travel from place to place. And there is a large living
room, a kitchen, several bed rooms and a nice open deck, where we can
sit, when it is too hot to be inside."

"Oh, that's going to be great!" cried Bert. "I want a room near the
engine."

"And can I be a fireman?" asked Freddie.

"I want to be near mamma--and you," spoke little Flossie.

"Oh, isn't it going to be lovely!" exclaimed Nan, clapping her hands.

"Scrumptious, I call it!" cried Bert, and he ran into the house,
through the hall, and into the dining-room, just as big, fat Dinah,
the cook, was entering the same room, carefully holding a big cake
which she had just covered with white frosting.

"Oh dear!" cried Bert, as he ran, full tilt, Into the big cook.

"Good land ob massy!" fairly yelled Dinah. "Wha--wha---"

But that was all she could say. She tried to save herself from
falling, but she could not. Nor could Bert. He went down, on one side
of the doorsill, and Dinah sat down, very hard, on the other, the cake
bouncing from her hands, up toward her head, and then falling into her
lap.