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MISCHIEF MAKERS 



DAY will be Nat's birthday," said 

 Dodo to Olive one Thursday after- 

 noon, "and uncle says we can 

 have a camp party ; but the vil- 

 lage children that we like, mostly 

 have the measles now, so we mustn't 

 te them, and we can't have a party 

 people and ice ci'eam." 

 have a party without House People , 

 a sausage party is great fun, with dogs for the com- 

 pany. I often had such parties when I was little, and 

 I should enjoy one now, I'm sure." 



" Oh, how lovely ! We can cook the sausages our- 

 selves, and I know three dogs besides our own that 

 could come, and Billy Coon, too, if we are careful to 

 keep him up on the beams. Dogs are simply crazy 

 al)out sausages. Ours always sniff and lick their lips 

 whenevei' Mannny Bun cooks an}^ I'll go and invite 

 Rod's brother's dogs and Rap's little terrier, — they are 

 acquainted with Quick and Mr. Wolf, so there won't be 

 any fighting, — while you go and ask Mammy if she has 

 plenty of sausages." 



So this is how Camp Saturday came to be full of the 

 smell of frying one Friday evening, and the reason, also, 



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