until that hour." And like a real fairy Dorothy shook her golden hair
and, stooping low in myth fashion, made a "bee-line" across the hall.

"She doesn't need any brother," Nan thought as she saw Dorothy bolt in
her door like a squirrel; "she is so jolly and funny!"

But the girls were not the only ones who arose early that morning, for
Bert and his father came in to breakfast from a walk on the sands.

"It's better than Meadow Brook," Bert told Nan, as she took her place
at the table. "I wish Harry would come down."

"It is so pleasant we want all our friends to enjoy it," said
Mrs. Bobbsey. "But I'm sure you have quite a hotel full now, haven't
you, Dorothy?"

"Lots more rooms up near the roof," replied Dorothy, "and it's a pity
to waste them when there's plenty of ocean to spare. Now, Freddie,"
went on Dorothy, "when we finish breakfast I am going to show you my
donkeys. I called one Doodle and the other Dandy, because papa gave
them to me on Decoration Day."

"Why didn't you call one Uncle Sam?" asked Freddie, remembering his
part in the Meadow Brook parade.

"Well, I thought Doodle Dandy was near enough red, white, and blue,"
said Dorothy.

The children finished breakfast rather suddenly and then made their
way to the donkey barn.