only an hour or so since they had started. Dinah was a good cook. She
kept one eye on the clock and the other on the things she was cooking.
And she made up her mind that the meals would be on time, even if they
were served on a houseboat. So it was the cooking of dinner that Harry
smelled.

"Oh, Dorothy!" exclaimed Nan, after a little while, during which the
two girls looked across the lake to the distant shores they had left.
"I must show you a new trick Snap has learned."

"What! Another trick?" cried Dorothy. "My! He knows a lot of them now.
He certainly is a clever dog!"

Snap, as I have told you, used to belong to a circus before the
Bobbseys bought him, so perhaps learning tricks came easier to him
than to most dogs.

"Yes, I taught him this trick myself," went on Nan. "He will walk
around on his hind legs, and carry a doll in his front paws, just like
a nurse girl. When I dress him up in one of my old skirts and a
jacket, he is too funny for anything! I'll make him do the trick now,
only I won't dress him up, for I can't find the clothes he wears. I
don't believe we brought them. But I'll make him carry the doll for
you. Here, Snap!" called Nan.

The dog, who had been sleeping in a sunny Spot on deck, near Snoop,
the black cat, sprang up, when he heard his name called.

"Where are you going to get a doll for him to carry?" asked Dorothy.