CHAPTER X.WET BLANKETS.
We certainly enjoyed our second day in camp.

All the morning, and a great part of the afternoon, we "explored." We fastened up the tent as well as we could, and then, I with my gun, and Euphemia with the fishing-pole, we started up the creek.

We did not go very far, for it would not do to leave the tent too long.

I did not shoot anything, but Euphemia caught two or three nice little fish, and we enjoyed the sport exceedingly.
Soon after we returned in the afternoon, and while we were getting things in order for supper, we had a call from two of our neighbors, Captain Atkinson and wife.

The captain greeted us hilariously.
"Hello!" he cried.