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Oh, it wath funny!" Tommy laughed merrily. "Grace Thompson! I am amazed!" exclaimed Miss Elting. "Tho wath Mr. Januth. But I'm thorry, now. I won't do it again, if you won't make fatheth at me." "Well, I swum! Shake, little pardner! You got the best of Janus Grubb that time, but his time will come." "You've got to promithe," insisted Tommy. "All right. I promise." "Tho do I."
"Can't you see we are all just perishing with curiosity?" "Yeth. I'm motht thuffocated from holding my breath," declared Tommy. "But Buthter ith thuffocated hecauthe she ith tho fat. Don't you think it ith awful to be tho fat, Mr. Januth?" She gazed, in apparent unblinking innocence, at the solemn-faced guide, who answered with twinkling eyes. "I dunno, Miss. I never was fat.
Suddenly her expression changed. A look of cunning appeared in her eyes. Then Tommy Thompson turned the tables on her tantalizers in a way that set the party in a greater uproar. Janus Grubb, too, learned a lesson that he did not soon forget. "Pull harder!" screamed Tommy. "I'm getting a ruthh of blood to my head. Pull fatht, Mr. Januth." This sally was greeted with another shout from the girls.
"You did it as gracefully as the lady who dived from the top of a house into a tank full of water at the county fair last year." "What I can't understand is why Tommy should have missed such an opportunity to distinguish herself," smiled the guardian. "I thtood athide tho Januth could dithtinguith himthelf," lisped Tommy. "Well, I swum!
Janus pulled himself slowly to a sitting position, and took an inventory to make sure that he was all there and still fastened together. For the moment he was not quite clear as to what really had occurred. When he saw the blue eyes of Tommy Thompson peering over at him, he remembered. "Oh, that ith too bad, Mr. Januth," she said with a voice full of sympathy. "You thouldn't have let go.
"Januth ith taking hith beauty thleep," observed Tommy wisely. Margery complained at being called so early; but when Tommy told her they were going to skip stones down the Slide, Buster was all eagerness to be up and at it. The girls did not even take the time to wash their faces, but ran to the Slide and gazed timidly down its slippery way. "Come on. Let'th get thome thtoneth," urged Grace.
"What!" shouted the girls. "I lotht it. I did. I wath emptying it when it fell down. But never mind, Mr. Januth will go down for it." The girls groaned. "Now you have done it," exclaimed Jane. "Whatever are we going to do without a frying-pan?" "I told you Mr. Januth ith going down after it," insisted Tommy. "No, Janus is not," answered the guide.
I swum!" he repeated, "I believe you did that on purpose." "Why, Mr. Januth!" protested Tommy. "Do ye deny it?" "No, Mr. Januth, I don't deny it. Athk me and I'll tell you the truth." "All right, I ask ye. Did ye pull me down?" "No, thir. You fell down, didn't you? But I let my foot catthh on a nub. I knew it would pull you over. You made fatheth at me tho I helped you to fall down.
"I've been thinking about the accident to our guide," said Miss Elting. "I don't know yet how it occurred." "I caught my foot on a nub," Tommy informed her. "That pulled Mr. Januth down on hith fathe." "Oh! I see." Mr. Grubb regarded Tommy suspiciously. Her face wore an innocent expression, but when Tommy winked solemnly at Harriet, Janus was enlightened. "Well, I swum!
"Anything wrong?" asked the guardian, glancing up from her own pack, the contents of which were spread out on the floor before her. The guide "swum" again. Miss Elting paused in her work, turning to him. "Mr. Januth ith troubled," observed Tommy wisely. "What is it?" demanded the guardian. "What is it? It's a rock, Miss." "What do you mean?"
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