CHAPTER VIII
HOME ONCE MORE
"And now for Oak Run and home!"
It was Dick who spoke, as he and his brothers boarded another train at Cartown. The girls had gone on in the first train and the boys had had to wait half an hour for the one on the line which would take them close to Valley Brook farm.
"Home it is!" returned Sam. "And I'll be glad to see dad again—and the rest of 'em."
"Right you are, Sam," joined in Tom. "After all, there is no place like home."
"Remember how you used to hate the farm, Tom?"
"Well, that was when we got too much of it. I don't like all farm and nothing else."
"I wonder if Uncle Randolph has any new fads this summer?" came from Dick. Their uncle was more or less of a scientific farmer, and
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