Next day off I
have, I'm going to spend hauling lumber to one of these lakes we decide
on, to build a house for a launch and fishing-boat for us. Then when we
have a vacation, we'll drive there, shelter our car, and enjoy ourselves
like the city folks by the thousand, since we think what they do so right
and fine. They've showed us what they like, flocking five thousand at a
clip, to Red Wing Lake a few miles from us. Since we live among what they
are spending their thousands every summer to enjoy, let's help ourselves
to a little pleasure. I am going to buy each of us a fishing rod, and get
a box of tackle, soon as I reach it, and I'm going fast. I've wasted
sixteen years, now I'm on the homestretch, and it's going to be a stretch
of all there is in me to make our home the sweetest, grandest place on
earth to us. Will you help me, Nancy?"
"I think maybe I'll be saved nervous prostration if I can help just a few
of these things to take place."
"Yes, I've sensed that," said Peter. "Mickey pointed that out to me the
morning you jumped your job and headed for sunup.
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