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 *ful hot. The water feels good. I'd like some more."

"You would, would you?" said Alice, making as if she were going to the stream again.

"Only give me time to get my mouth open and catch it," Peanut laughed.

"Alice!" said her mother, again, "I told you to put your shoes and stockings on."

"They're not dry yet," said the girl, feeling of them.

"Oh, dear, what can you do? The rest will be here in a moment!" exclaimed her sister, the girl in pink.

"I have it!" Peanut said. He slung off his pack, and produced his pair of extra socks. They were heavy and long, being made to wear with high boots. Alice snatched them from him with a laugh, and, turning her back, sat down to put them on. Then she got up and turned around. Everybody laughed. The toes were too long, and flapped a bit when she walked. Her feet looked huge, for a girl.

"I hope I wear a big hole in 'em," she was saying, as the rest of the Scouts came up.

But she wasn't half so mad at Peanut as she had pretended, evidently, for while Art and Lou were taking all the responsibility of cooking the lunch and making the coffee, the two of them walked off together up the stream to the falls, Alice giving little