"Oh, I see the ocean!" called out Freddie, as Bert drove nearer the
noise of the waves. "Why didn't we bring Downy for his swim?"

"Too early to bathe yet!" said Dorothy. "We have a bathing house all
to ourselves,--papa rented it for the summer,--and about eleven
o'clock we will come down and take a dip. Mamma always comes with me
or sends Susan, our maid. Mamma cannot believe I really know how to
swim."

"And do you?" asked Nan, in surprise.

"Wait until you see!" replied the cousin. "And I am going to teach
you, too."

"I'd love to know how, but it must be awfully hard to learn," answered Nan.

"Not a bit," went on Dorothy; "I learned in one week. We have a pool
just over there, and lots of girls are learning every day. You can
drive right along the beach, Bert; the donkeys are much safer than
horses and never attempt to run away."

How delightful it was to ride so close to the great rolling ocean!
Even Freddie stopped exclaiming, and just watched the waves, as one
after another they tried to get right under Dorothy's cart.

"It makes me almost afraid!" faltered little Flossie, as the great big
waves came up so high out on the waters, they seemed like mountains
that would surely cover up the donkey cart. But when they "broke" on
the sands they were only little splashy puddles for babies to wash