"All right, come ahead," put in Fred.
"Oh, please don't have another row with him!" cried Dora in alarm.
"Let him keep the seats. We can go somewhere else,"
"All right, let the pig sleep," said Dick.
He felt tolerably certain that Dan Baxter was awake and heard him,
but the bully made no sign.
The party walked away, and the bully sneered softly to himself.
"They didn't dare to tackle me," was what he thought in his
conceit. "I'd like to meet 'em one by one alone I'd show each a
trick or, two."
At last Cedarville was reached and the little steamer tied up at
the dock, and the boys and girls went ashore. Just before
leaving, Dick took a look at Dan Baxter and saw that he wag now
sleeping in earnest.
"I won't wake him," he thought. "If he is carried to the head of
the lake, it will only serve him right."
Once on the dock, he and Fred hurried off to see about the
baggage, and while they were gone a well-dressed and pleasant-
looking farmer came up and kissed each of the girls. It was Mr.
Laning.
"I hope you had a nice visit to Cousin May's," he said. "Come,
the carriage is waiting out in the street."
And he hurried the girls away before they had hardly time to say
good-by.
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