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Updated: June 17, 2025
And she handed her the expensive instrument with an air of perfect confidence in her ability to take care of it. "May I stay over there with Uncle Teddy and watch them take pictures?" asked Antha, for whom the time was beginning to lag now that the others were not on the island. "Yes, certainly," said Aunt Clara. "I gave them plenty of lunch for three."
"We haven't had a chance to try it on anybody yet," said Hinpoha, "except Antha. We really and truly didn't want her here this summer at all until Katherine said she would be an opportunity instead of a nuisance." Here Nyoda smiled radiantly in Katherine's direction in the darkness. What a faculty that girl had for seeing possibilities, whether in wooden Indians or spoiled children!
She started Antha out in the rowboat and then went back to her task of concocting a new and delightful Indian pudding. When the boys and girls came home to dinner she was glad she had stayed and made it, for their delight and appreciation amply repaid her for the trouble. At four o'clock the Captain went for the mail and came home with Uncle Teddy and Mr. Evans.
No sooner said than done, and a council fire was kindled on the beach and in the presence of the whole company Antha was made a Winnebago with full ceremony a thing they never would have dreamed of at the beginning of the summer. "This is going to be our last week on Ellen's Isle," said Sahwah rather dolefully at the breakfast table the next morning.
"Then I guess you're not very rich, are you?" said Anthony pityingly. "My papa, he's twice as rich as all of you put together. He's a judge, and my mother has money in her own right and so have I and so has Antha. And we'll get more yet when my grandfather dies. I could buy a dozen war canoes if I wanted them, but I don't want them.
"All right, sir," said the Captain. Aunt Clara and the girls departed to put up a lunch basket for the men while Uncle Teddy and Mr. Evans gathered up the various impedimenta they wanted to take along. The boys took them over to the Point of Pines and then started off on a long ride in the launch, taking all the girls with them except Antha, who had a headache.
Her whole figure was tense from trying to cling to the slippery rock, and in her arms she was tightly clutching the camera. She fairly tumbled into the launch as it ran alongside her. "What happened?" they all asked. "The bottom came out of the boat," said Antha, "and it filled up with water and I got out on that rock and the boat sank." "Which boat did you take?" asked Uncle Teddy.
After them came Hinpoha and Slim, paddling the second canoe with Antha and Dan as passengers; then Sahwah and the Monkey, paddling Migwan and Anthony; and lastly, Katherine and the Captain with Gladys and Peter Jenkins, and Eeny-Meeny traveling in state behind them. The lake was smooth and paddling was easy. They sang as they bent to their paddles, as voyageurs of old.
"This is a horrible mean old place and I can't have any fun at all." "Why can't you have any fun?" asked Katherine. "Because you girls are always running away from me and having secrets that you won't tell me," said Antha with a gulp. "You're doing something now that you won't let me know about." True enough.
"Do you mind awfully, because we dug up the ground?" asked Gladys. "Why didn't you tell us your father owned the land?" she said, turning reproachfully to the twins. "We didn't know it," said Antha, "but I don't think papa minds our digging it up, do you, Papa?" "Not in the least," said the judge, chuckling.
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