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"You have not told me your name yet," she reminded him, apparently more at ease now that she knew he intended to paddle her across the bay. "My name? It's an Indian name Watha Hy. A. Watha, at your service, and I am very fond of canoeing. What's yours?" "You need hardly ask that, Mr. Hiawatha, when you knew my sister, Minnie, so well," she laughed. "I am Mary Ha-ha!"
In the bottom of the box were four shirts of the softest flannel, two pairs of long black woolen stockings, and a canoeing suit of stout brown cloth knickerbockers, blouse, and a yachting cap. It was a fine outfit, and the boys good naturedly envied Nugget his luck. The date of departure was fixed for the first week in July.
"But that's not all we can do," cried Betty, her eyes shining with the light of resolution. "There's real work enough to keep us busy all day long. Girls, I've got a plan!" "What?" they cried, leaning forward eagerly. "I'm going to join the Red Cross!" "Who's game for a paddle?" "I am!" "And I!" "Oh, it's the most wonderful night in the world for canoeing!" "And there's going to be a moon, too!"
If you happened to have been a freshman at Yale some eighteen years ago and were at all addicted to canoeing on Lake Whitney, and if, moreover, on coming off the lake there burned in you a thirst for ginger-beer as is common in the gullet of a freshman doubtless you have gone from the boathouse to a certain little white building across the road to gratify your hot desires.
"Why, yes, I did," Janet confessed, "and, you see, they liked to play ball and to go sailing or canoeing," she thought of Peter Gibbs, and the thought of him made the color come back to her cheeks natural color this time. "We coasted a lot in the winter and then of course there was always fishing," she finished lamely.
He purchased a second hand canoe which Ned picked out for him, and without the knowledge of his companions he wrote to his father in New York for a canoeing outfit. The box duly arrived and was opened one evening in the boathouse.
So the members of the family picked berries, went fishing or hunting or canoeing, more or less frequently, as their inclinations prompted them. Several days thus passed in varied sport and work.
They supped at nine on Sunday nights; it was just half-past. "Dear me," said the old gentleman, "we began to think that you two must have been out canoeing and got yourselves drowned in good earnest this time. What have you been doing?" "We have had a long walk," answered Geoffrey; "I did not know that it was so late."
Concerning the perils of the rapids he decided to take his chances. It was just possible that the Birwas had lied, hoping to deter him from his purpose. That they were fairly experienced in the art of canoeing was evident by the way in which they skilfully avoided the numerous hippopotami, their broad-bladed paddles entering the water without the faintest suspicion of a splash.
Then he has a vacation, say for a couple of weeks or a month, in summer, and he goes off into the woods with his fishing kit, or canoeing outfit, or his amateur photographic set, or whatever the tools of his particular fad may be. He goes to a book-store and buys up a lot of paper-covered novels.
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