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 from it,—Aunt Fannie had saved those for supper!

The girls hadn't discovered it yet, so I leaned over to them. "Bess," I said, "will you do me a favor?"

"Sure," said Bess.

"Well, go and ask the gentleman to kindly take this sweater to sit on, and let us have our lunch."

"Oh, oh, oh!" moaned the girls, as soon as they caught sight of the tragedy, "Oh, Chet, what made you tell us? We wouldn't have been nearly so hungry! Oh, dear, we'll starve before we get home!"

"Well, we have a great deal to be thankful for," I said, solemnly.

"What?" asked Twinny, skeptically.

"That he didn't land on one of us, instead of on the box! Your name would have been Twinny Pancake, sure!"

Just then a man in uniform came out of the cabin and looked around. He saw the man on the floor, and came over to him. "Are you hurt?" he asked.

"No, no," mumbled the man.

"Well then, what's the matter? Why don't