go camping with him!"
laughed the farmer, as the expressman made his horse go faster.

At the depot, while the children were waiting to have the boxes and
crates of things for the camp loaded into the wagon, Ted saw Arthur
Weldon, a boy with whom he sometimes played.

"Hello, Art!" called Ted.

"Hello!" answered Arthur. "I thought you were camping on Star Island."

"We are," answered Teddy.

"It doesn't look so!" laughed Arthur, or "Art," as most of his boy
friends called him.

"Well, we just came over to get some things. There's grandpa and the
expressman with them now," went on Ted, as the two men came from the
freight house with a number of bundles.

"I wish I was camping," went on the other boy. "It isn't any fun around
here."

"You can come over to see us sometimes," invited Jan. "I'll ask my
mother to let you, and you can play with us."

"He don't want to play girls' games!" cried Ted.

"Well, I guess I can play boys' games as well as girls' games!"
exclaimed Janet, with some indignation.

"Oh, yes, course you can," agreed her brother.

"And maybe Art can bring his sister to the island to see us, and then we
could play boys' games and girls', too," went on Jan.

"I'll ask my mother," promised Arthur.

Grandpa and the expressman soon had the wagon loaded, and Arthur rode
back in it with the Curlytops to the wharf where the boat was tied.

"All aboard for Star Island!" cried Mr. Martin, when the things were in
the boat, nearly filling it. "All aboard!"

"I wish I could come now!" sighed Arthur.

"Well, we'd like to take you," said Grandpa Martin, "but it wouldn't be
a good thing to take you unless your mother knew you were coming with
us, and we haven't time to go up to ask her now. The next time maybe
we'll take you back with us."

There was a wistful look on Arthur's face as he watched the boat being
rowed away from the main shore and toward the island. Ted and Janet
waved their hands to him, and said they would ask their mother to invite
him for a visit, which they did a few weeks later.

Once back on the island the things were taken out of the boat and then
began the work of taking them out of the boxes and crates. There was a
new oil stove, to warm the tent on cool or rainy days, and other things
for the camp, and when all had been unpacked there was quite a pile of
boards and sticks left.

"I know what we can do with them," said Teddy to Janet, when they had
been piled in a heap not f