"I don't see how the boat is to carry all the people," Nora
remarked.
"Oh, yes," said Daisy, "it is a big boat; it will hold
everybody, I guess; and it goes with a sail, Nora. Won't that
be nice? Papa knows how to manage it."
"It will want a very large boat to take us all," Nora
persisted. "I went out with Marmaduke in a sail-boat once — he
knows how to manage a sail-boat too; — and I am sure it
wouldn't have held half as many people as we have got here.
No, nor a quarter as many."
"Oh, yes, but our boat is bigger, I suppose," said Daisy.
"Don't you like to go in a boat, Nora?"
"I like it if it don't lean over too far," said Nora. "I
thought it was going to turn over once or twice, when I was
out with Marmaduke that time. I was afraid."
"I am not afraid with papa," said Daisy. "I know he can manage
it."
"Why, so can Marmaduke manage it," said Nora; "and he said I
needn't be afraid; but I was."
The carriages took the whole party down to the shore in a few
minutes. There lay the sail-boat all ready, her sails shaken
out; and James and Sam, on board already, received basket
after basket from the hands of Logan and the coachman, and
stowed them away in what seemed to be a place of ample
accommodations.
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