The morning passed quickly and happily.  To the girls who had never before been in that country, there seemed to be an unending number of new discoveries.  Timid as the deer might be, there was nothing nervous about the squirrels and chipmunks which abounded in the woods near the lake, and as soon as they saw the girls they came running about, so that there were often half a dozen or more begging noisily for dainties to afford them a change from their diet of nuts, sitting up, and chattering prettily as they got the morsels that were tossed to them.

“I never saw them so tame, even at home,” said Bessie, surprised.  “We had plenty of them there, but I suppose they were wilder because the boys used to shoot them.  They don’t do that here, I suppose?”

“No; the people who hunt around here go in for bigger game.  They would think they were wasting their time if they bothered to shoot chipmunks and squirrels.”

“I’ve seen them tame before, but that was in the park, at home, and it isn’t the same thing at all,” said Dolly.

“No; though they’re very cute, and I’m glad there are so many of them there.  But here, of course, they’re in their real home, and it’s different, and much nicer, I think.”

Then, after luncheon, Miss Eleanor divided the girls into watches.

“I think we’ll have more fun if a certain number stay home every afternoon to prepare dinner and cook it,” she said.  “Then the rest of you can go for walks, or do anything you like, so long as you are back in time for dinner.  In that way, some of you will be free every afternoon, and those who have to work won’t mind, because they will know that the next day they will be free, and so on.”

Zara was one of those who drew a piece of paper marked “work” from the big hat in which Miss Eleanor put a slip of paper for every girl, while Bessie and Dolly each drew a slip marked “play.”

“To-morrow the girls who work to-day will play,” said Miss Eleanor, “and those who play to-day will draw again.  Four of them will play again to-morrow, and the other four will work, and then, on the third day, those who play tomorrow will work, and on the fourth day to-day’s four will work again.  That will give everyone two days off and one day to work while we’re in camp.  And I think that’s fair.”

So did everyone else, and Dolly, always willing to put off work as long as she could, was delighted.

“Let’s take a long walk this afternoon, Bessie,” she said.  “The air up here makes me feel more like walking than I ever do when I’m at home.  There I usually take a car whenever I can, though I’ve been trying to walk more lately, so as to get an honor bead.”

“I’ll be glad to take a walk, Dolly,” said Bessie, laughing.  “I think you ought to be encouraged any time you really want to do something that’s good for you.”

“Oh, if I stay with you long enough I’ll be too good to keep on living,” said Dolly.  “Don’t you see the difference between us, Bessie?  You’re good because you like to do the things you ought to do.  And when anyone tells me something’s good for me, I always get so that I don’t want to do it.  We’ll start right after lunch, shall we?”