"I have some of the cutest bantams you ever saw." "I'll help you feed them," said Jessie.

At Crumville she had always taken an interest in the chickens.
The trunks and dress-suit cases had been brought in by old Jerry and one of the Chinese servants, and placed in the proper rooms, and after supper the boys and girls spent an hour in getting settled.

Laura and Jessie had a nice room that connected with one occupied by Belle, and Dave, Phil, and Roger were assigned to two rooms directly opposite.
"You boys can divide up the rooms to suit yourselves," said Mrs.
Endicott.
"Thank you, we will," they answered, and later arranged that Dave was to have one apartment and Roger the other, and Phil was to sleep one week with one chum and the next with the other.
"Say, but this suits me down to the ground!" cried the senator's son, after the boys had said good-night to the others.

"It's a complete surprise.

Like Jessie, I had an idea we'd have to rough it." "I knew about what to expect, for Laura told me," answered Dave, with a smile.