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 ny hadn't said a word about Bess, except that she had gone to sleep, and so she didn't get teased at all.

As soon as the landing was made, we kids raced off ahead of the others, up the slope to the street, across the bridge, through the little park, and away out onto the hard sand of the east beach.

And such a beach! It was white and smooth for miles and miles—as far as one could see—hard and firm near the water, loose and fine farther back; and then piled up in great soft dunes eighty or a hundred feet high, with trees and bushes on the tops of some of them, and others just smooth and round, and you could see the heads of oaks and maples that were growing on the landward slope, away from the wind, and only peeping over the top. Hoosier Slide is on the other side of the river, and that is a perfect mountain of sand, and almost straight up and down. Twinny said that they climbed it the Summer before, and it was so steep and so soft that they thought they never would get to the top, and it was a blazing hot day, too; but they would go up, because they wanted to see the view from