Bobbsey, as he
filled Bert's plate for the second time.
"I want some, too!" called Freddie. "I'm hungry like a bear!"
"But you mustn't eat like a bear!" said his mother, laughing. "You
must wait your turn," and she served Flossie first, for that little
"fairy" was as hungry as the others.
"What funny little beds!" exclaimed Nan, when she saw where they were
to sleep in the log cabin.
"They're almost like the berths in the sleeping car," said Bert.
"They are called 'bunks,'" his father told him. "Lumbermen move about
so, from camp to camp, that they could not take regular beds with
them. So they build bunks against the wall, spreading their blankets
over pine or, hemlock boughs, as the driver did in the wagon we rode
over in from the station."
But the bunks in the log cabin had mattresses stuffed with straw, and
though they were not like the beds in the Pullman car, nor like those
in the Bobbsey home, all the children slept well.
They did not awaken all night, nor did Freddie fall out of bed, as
sometimes happened.
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