WE went aboard the boat early, so as to get good seats, and we fixed up a cozy little corner in the stern, all by ourselves. Some of us had camp chairs and some, big splint-bottomed chairs with arms; and as soon as we were settled, Uncle Fred opened the paper bags, and there were oranges and bananas and some great big dark red plums which were red all the way through to the seed,—the first ones like that that I had ever seen,—and they certainly were fine.
We had made a pretty good start on the fruit when the boat moved out into the river. "Well, for goodness' sake," said Twinny, "Look at the crowd down there by the life-saving station! Do you suppose they all came down just to see the boat go out? You'd think they never saw a steam-boat before!"
"They're a jolly looking crowd, aren't they?" I said. "They look as if they were having a lot of fun about something,—wish I was in the joke."
