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They all slept very late the nextutterly worn out froot down-stairs, they took a sort of a lunch-breakfast off the pantry shelves again It was strange how good even shredded-wheat biscuit andappetite, although Leslie and Allison had been known to scorn all cereals Still, there were cookies and wonderful apples fro tree in the back yard for dessert

"When are thoseback to finish up?" suddenly delass of reat bite fro around the e how in the world she was going to cook with all the cooking-utensils packed in the attic

"We ought to have left the kitchen till last," she added with a troubled look "You crazy children! Didn't you knoe had to eat? I told that s on the kitchen-table, that they were to stay down until the very last thing, and now he has taken the table even! I went up-stairs to see if I could get at things, and I find he has put them away at the back, and piled all the chairs and soet so"

"Not a bit of it, Cloudy!" said Leslie, giving a spring and perching herself on the drain-board of the sink, where she sat swinging her dainty little pu on a velvet sofa "See! Here's ht it all out Let's see," consulting her rist-watch, "it's nine o'clock That isn't bad Noe'll work till twelve; that's long enough for to-day, because you got too tired yesterday; and, besides, we've got sos to attend to Then we'll hustle into the car, and get to town, and do soet lunch at a tea-rooo to a hotel for dinner, and stay all night Then in the et up early, have our breakfast, and drive back here in time before the men come Now isn't that perfectly spick-and-span for a plan?"

"Leslie! But, dear, that would cost a lot! And, besides, it isn't in the least necessary"