THE FIRST NIGHT "Well," said Janet, "that's a very nice start.

It would have been horrid if the first farmer had been crusty." "Ah," said Mary Rotheram, "but you should see his wife! It was she who did it for us really.

Perhaps after dinner we might walk up there to thank her." After dinner! How recklessly young caravaners can talk.

But you shall hear....
Kink with much skill got Moses and the Slowcoach into the field and shut the gate, and then the great carriage rocked and swayed over the grass, making no sound but a mixture of creaking and crockery.

At last he brought it to a stand just under a tall hedge, and Moses was at once taken out and roped to a crowbar driven in the ground.
"The first thing," said Janet, "is the fire," and Jack and Horace were sent off to collect wood and pile it near the Slowcoach, and fix the tripod over it.