you don't fall over into the hollow," cautioned Dave, as
he assisted Jessie and his sister to alight.

To one side of the roadway was something of a cleared space, and into
this the two automobiles were run. The boys got out the hampers and
other things, and took them over to the spot which Belle's quick eyes
had picked out. Here there was a patch of green grass shaded by several
large trees, and in front of it a flat rock, beyond which was spread out
a vast panorama of hills and valleys stretching for many miles.

"It's a perfect picture!" cried Jessie. "I must get a photograph of it."

"Yes. And we must take a photograph of the crowd at lunch," returned
Dave.

"Let's eat before we start to take any photographs," put in Luke, who
seemed to be extra hungry. "I never did look well in a picture taken
before eating," and at this there was a general laugh.

While the boys brought the various things from the cars, the girls and
Mrs. Basswood spread a lunch-cloth partly on the grass and partly on the
flat rock, and on this placed the various good things which had been
brought along.

"First call for lunch!" sang out Dave, loudly, when all was in
readiness.

"I guess your first call will be the last, too, Dave!" exclaimed Jessie.
"Here! what will you have--a ham sandwich or one with chicken?"

"I think I'll try the chicken," he answered.

"Oh, don't be backward about coming forward, Dave!" cried Luke. "Why
don't you try them both?"

"I will before I get through."

"We all will," declared Roger. "There is nothing the matter with this
air for giving one an appetite," he added. "I believe after we have been
up at Bear Camp for a while we'll all be eating like wolves."

"Why not like bears, if we are going to Bear Camp?" suggested Phil.

"Say, I can't bear a joke like that!" broke in Roger.

"It was a little barefaced; wasn't it?" commented Dave.

"Oh, quit your joking, I'm hungry," pleaded Luke. And then all the young
folks fell to eating with great gusto, and it must be admitted that the
older heads followed suit.

The lunch lasted the best part of half an hour, and was thoroughly
enjoyed by every one. Then the young people got out their cameras, and
various snap-shots and time-pictures were taken, to be developed and
printed later on.

"Now then, let us pack up as quickly as we can, and finish this trip,"
said Mr. Basswood, presently.

As he spoke he looked up at the sky, and the others did the same. Off t