Ted and Janet took the lemonade and crackers with them in the goat-
wagon and had a nice little picnic in the woods.
"What can we do to-day?" asked Janet, as she and Teddy finished
breakfast in the tent one morning, and, after playing about on the
beach of the lake, wanted some other fun.
"Let's go swimming!" cried Teddy.
"And take Trouble with us," added Ms sister.
In their bathing suits and with Nora on the bank to watch them, the
children were soon splashing in the cool water. Ted could swim a
little bit, and Jan was just learning.
"Come on out where it's a little deeper," Ted urged his sister. "It
isn't up to your knees here, and you can't swim in such shallow
water."
"I'm afraid to go out," she said.
"Afraid of what?"
"Big fish or a crab."
"Pooh! those little crabs won't bite you, and when we splash around we
scare away all the fish. They wouldn't bite you anyhow."
"Maybe a water snake would."
"No, it wouldn't," declared Ted. "Come on and see me swim."
So Jan waded out a little way with him. Ted was just taking a few
strokes, really swimming quite well for so small a boy, when, all at
once, he heard a cry from his sister.
"Oh, Ted! Ted!" she called. "Come on in, quick. A big fish is goin' to
bite you!"
Ted gave one look over his shoulder and saw something with a pointed
nose, long whiskers and two bright eyes swimming toward him.
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