Besides the tents they must take with them things to eat, knives, forks, spoons, dishes, pots and pans, an oil stove and bed clothing.

All these things Daddy Brown, or Mother Brown, with the help of Uncle Tad or Bunker Blue, packed.  The big automobile, in which the Brown family had eaten and slept when on their trip to grandpa’s farm, was once more made ready for a journey.

In this were packed the tents, the bedding, the stove, the good things to eat, and all that would be needed in camp.  Of course, they could not take with them all they would want to eat through the summer, for they expected to stay in camp until fall.  But there were stores not far from Lake Wanda, and in them could be bought bread, butter, sugar, tea, coffee, or whatever else was needed.

“Are we going to sleep in the automobile this time?” asked Bunny, as he looked inside the big moving van.  “I don’t see where we can make a bed,” Bunny went on, for the van was quite filled with the tents, cot-beds, chairs, tables, the oil stove and other things.

“No, we’re not going to sleep in the auto this time,” said Mr. Brown.  “It will only take us a day to get from here to Lake Wanda where we are going to camp.  So we will get up here, in our own home in the morning, ride to camp, put up the tents, and that same night we will sleep in them.”

“Oh, what fun it will be!” cried Sue, joyfully.

“It will be dandy!” exclaimed Bunny.  “And I’ll catch fish for our supper in the lake.”

“I hope you won’t catch them as you caught the turtle in the New York aquarium, the time we went to Aunt Lu’s city home,” said Mother Brown with a laugh.

“No, I won’t catch any mud turtles,” promised Bunny.

In the book before this one I’ve told you about Bunny catching the turtle on a bent pin hook with a piece of rag for bait.  He had quite an exciting time.

Everyone at the Brown house was busy now.  There was much to be done to get ready to go to camp.  Bunny and Sue were each given a box, and told that this must hold all their toys and playthings.

“You may take with you only as much as your two boxes will hold,” said Daddy Brown to Bunny and Sue.  “So pick out the play-toys you like best, as the two boxes are all you may have.  And when you get to camp I want you always, when you have finished playing, to put back in the boxes the toys you have finished with.

“In that way you will always know where they are, when you want them again, and you won’t have to be looking for them, or asking your mother or me to help you find them.  Besides, we must keep our camp looking nice, and a camp can’t look nice if toys and play-things are scattered all about.

“So pick out the things you want to take with you, pack them in your boxes and, after you get to camp, keep your toys in the boxes.  That is one of our rules.”

“Aye, aye, sir!” answered Bunny making a funny little bob with his head as he had seen some of the old sailors, at his father’s dock, do when they answered.