"Now for the surprise!" Dan said as they neared the cabin. "Well, I certainly hope it is something to eat," Jane began, with little interest, but when the two children threw open the front door and she saw the table in the living-room close to the wide window with four places set, she delighted the little workers by announcing that it was the best sight she had beheld that day. Then, when Jane and Dan were seated, Julie and Gerry skipped to the kitchen and returned with as tempting a lunch as even Jane could have wished for. There was creamed tuna on toast and jam and a heaping plate of lettuce sandwiches and two of the Rockyford melons for which Colorado is famous. Then there was for each a glass of creamy milk. "Great!" Dan exclaimed. "I didn't know we were going to be able to get milk." Julie nodded eagerly. "It comes from the Packard ranch, fresh to the inn every day, and Mrs. Bently said she would send us two quarts every time the stage comes up our road, which usually is three times a week. We can keep it cool as anything in the creek. Mrs. Bently told us how." "After lunch can we get out the guns, Dan?" Gerald asked when he had hungrily gulped down a sandwich. "Why, I guess so," the older boy laughed good naturedly. "You aren't expecting a bear to find out this soon, are you, that we have some supplies that he might wish to devour?" Julie looked anxiously toward the open door of the cabin. "Don't you think maybe we'd better keep that door closed when we're eating?" she asked anxiously. "You know Dad said he and mother were sitting right here where we are, maybe, one morning at breakfast, when mother looked up and there was an old grizzly standing in the open door. He had been around to the kitchen and had eaten up all the supplies he could find and he was hunting for more." Gerald chimed in with: "It was lucky Dad kept his big gun always standing in the corner. I suppose it was right there, near you, Dan, so he could just grab it and shoot." The children were watching the door as though they expected at any minute that another grizzly might appear. Dan laughed at them. "We might as well have stayed at home if we are going to stay in the cabin and keep the door closed," he told them. "I'm going to suggest that we put the table on that nice porch just outside of the kitchen. That will make an ideal outdoor dining-room, with a big pine tree back of it to shelter us from the sun. It will be handy to the kitchen, and, what is more, a bear simply could not scale up that wall beyond the ledge." Then, very seriously, the older brother addressed the younger two. "Julie, I don't want you or Gerald to go close to that cliff. It's too dangerous." Honest Gerald blurted in with, "We did go once, Dan. We squirmed out on our tummies till we could look 'way down, and I tell you it made us dizzy. We won't ever want to do it again."