"You'd promise not to sleep out if it were wet? I'm sure Brownie would arrange for Jan, and anything you might want. Well, Robin—I'm not so sure that your plan isn't a good one after all. And, if it does work, it will be a decided help to me." 

 "Hurray!" shouted Robin.  "Hurray!" shouted the other two. This was Robin's plan, was it? they thought; well, it was a jolly good one. Peter waved an oar in the air. 

 "Listen though," said their mother anxiously, "for if I am going to allow it, I have any amount to say first." 

 But in half an hour every single thing was arranged. Jan, despatched to fetch Brownie, appeared in due course with the old woman, who seemed as "adaptable as a jolly old glove," as Peter said, hugging her. She was delighted to provide the campers with food and anything that they might need, and was overjoyed that there was a possibility of "Miss Jan" staying at the cottage.  "And in bad weather, the young gentlemen too! Yes, ma'am, to be sure," said Brownie.  "But—" her voice sounded a little fearful and dubious as she spoke—"there's only the attic, ma'am, with the sloping roof; they wouldn't be fr——" 

 "Of course not."  Mrs. Vaughan's voice sounded almost impatient; she broke off hastily, and Brownie said no more.  "Really, Robin," declared his mother, with a change of tone, "I don't know what I should do without you. It seems a very good plan. Now, if only the weather——" 

 "Wind's in the right quarter," said Peter, with sparkling eyes. 

 "And—you'll blow your horn every day after breakfast, Mother," begged Jan, "and come and talk to us, won't you? We won't come to the house at all, but we'll send letters by Brown." 

 "Very well, good-bye till to-morrow."  Mrs. Vaughan turned, looking greatly relieved. 

 "Good luck to Dick; and take care of yourself, Mother," shouted the three as she disappeared, waving her hand at the bend of the path. 

 "And now, what are we to do?" inquired Peter of his older brother. 

 "I'll jolly well show you that, old chap," said Robin.  "We've got to pitch a camp, and that pretty quickly too, for arrangements have taken time. It's fortunate that we decided on the site; but we've got to make our sleeping-place, you know." 

 "Better sleep to-night in the large attic, Master Robin, perhaps," suggested Brownie, but she looked 

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