The next time
maybe we'll take you back with us."
There was a wistful look on Arthur's face as he watched the boat being
rowed away from the main shore and toward the island. Ted and Janet
waved their hands to him, and said they would ask their mother to
invite him for a visit, which they did a few weeks later.
Once back on the island the things were taken out of the boat and then
began the work of taking them out of the boxes and crates. There was a
new oil stove, to warm the tent on cool or rainy days, and other
things for the camp, and when all had been unpacked there was quite a
pile of boards and sticks left.
"I know what we can do with them," said Teddy to Janet, when they had
been piled in a heap not far from the shore of the lake, and a little
distance away from the tents.
"What?" asked the little girl.
"We can make a raft like Robinson Crusoe did," answered Teddy, for his
mother had read him a little about the shipwrecked sailor who, as told
in the story book, lived so long alone on an island.
"What's a raft?" asked Janet.
"Oh, it's something like a boat, but it hasn't got any sides to it--
only a bottom," answered her brother. "You make it out of flat boards
and you have to push it along with a pole. We can make a raft out of
all the boards and pieces of wood grandpa took the things out of.
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