"Arrive in Boston Monday morning; Class Day, Tuesday; Baseball, Wednesday (tickets for you all) Commencement, Thursday and if the weather is fine you can all go, for it will be in the Stadium; Friday, sightseeing and anything you want to do." And below was a notation telling them he had had rooms engaged for weeks ahead at the Westminister Hotel, which was a very wise and thoughtful provision for their comfort, as Boston hotels are always more than crowded commencement week. "It sounds like a lot of fun, Mother," she said happily. "And are we going to sleep on the train and have hashed brown potatoes in the diner and live at a place by the ocean just like when we went to Florida?" asked Mary Jane. "It won’t be just like in Florida," explained Mr. Merrill, "because Boston is a big city like Chicago, and big cities have different sorts of hotels from any you have been in. But I’ll venture to say you will have a good time. And if you stick to Uncle Hal’s program you won’t have much time for either napping or being homesick!" "Dear me!" cried Mrs. Merrill suddenly glancing at the clock, "I don’t know why we are sitting here all day dreaming! We ought to be making out lists and deciding what to take and do and everything. We’re going to be busy people these next two weeks, let me tell you that." Alice dashed to the desk for pencils and pads. "Let’s make out a list of what we have to do for the new house," said Mrs. Merrill, "and what we have to take and what I have to make or buy. And I can tell you this much," she added a few minutes later when the lists were well under way, "if I’m to do all those things before we go, you two people will have to do a lot of helping." "Oh, we’d love that!" exclaimed Mary Jane eagerly, "I’d get breakfasts and Alice can wash all the dishes and—" "What’s all this?" demanded Alice as she looked up from the list she was finishing, "_I_’ll get breakfasts, and _you_ can wash dishes and—" "Let’s both do ’em both," corrected Mary Jane, "but I _can_ make toast and cook eggs; I just _know_ I can, mother dear, and I want to help a lot." "I know you do, dear," said Mrs. Merrill, as she drew the little girl toward her, "and you’re going to in just every way you can and will." So it was decided that the two girls should do every bit of the housework they possibly could and let Mrs. Merrill have lots of time free for sewing and shopping and tending to the new house.