IX 



AN INVITATION 



l']F(_)UE the excitement of moving 

 into camp liad passed away, the 

 children had another treat in the 

 shape of a pair of holidays, — 

 Thauksgivijio- and the day after. 

 For as the day of .Saint Turkey 

 always comes on Thursday, 

 teachers and cluldren agree that 

 it is not A\'orth while to light 

 school lires on Friday, only to 

 put them out again the next day. 



" We can begin the stories and have the campfire 

 every night and shoot every afternoon. It's begun to 

 snow already, and perhaps Nez will come doAMi and 

 sliow us how to make snow-shoes," chattered Dodo, 

 happily, on jNIonday, as she looked out of the window 

 in the wonder room, into the sky at dusk, and saw the 

 mysterious flakes of the first snow-storm fluttering 

 down. 



" Yes, it will be jolly ! " said Nat, looking u}) from 

 the book he was studying ; " but I want to do some 

 real shooting, too. Rod says there's lots of liabbit 

 signs over along the edge of the \vood lot, where he 

 was hauling logs yesterday, and he found three forms 



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