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Wilhelm Fritz carried the heavy lunch-basket, al- 

 though there were other little things that we helped 

 him with. This was fortunate, for when we came 

 to the rock Wilhelm Fritz had to take Little Trudy 

 on his shoulder and carry her. We went up the 

 side that is so steep. 



When we were all up, the first thing we did was 

 to begin unpacking the baskets. It was only eleven 

 o'clock, but we were hungry, and Herr Wilhelm 

 Fritz said we might as well eat first and play after- 

 ward. 



Tommy and Philip started to build a fire-place 

 so that we might roast potatoes. They made it 

 of stone and earth in something the shape of an 

 ant's house, only of course it was quite large. In 

 the front they left a little opening for fire-sticks. 



Herr Wilhelm Fritz said : " Dose vill be der pest 

 potatoes dat you chilrun hev eat already." 



Kate Hood and I spread the table. We laid 

 the cloth over the place where Old Adam shows 

 only bare rock, and right after that we saw that 

 there were no knives and forks in the basket. We 

 thought they had been forgotten. Tommy and 

 Philip were much too busy making the oven to 

 run home after them, so Wilhelm Fritz said " he 

 vud make sum dat vud do very goot." 



He went away for a few minutes, and when he 

 came back he had a whole bundle of twigs under 

 his arm, and was whittling very fast. A number 

 of the twigs were just the shape of forks, and when 



