"Don't mention steam heat in this
climate."
"Of course we want hot and cold water in the kitchen," put in Nellie.
"What sort of a mansion would it be without hot and cold water,--and
a dumb waiter from the cellar, too," and then all began to laugh.
"I know what I should like," said Dora, after a pause. "That would
be a refrigerator."
"If we had the ice," finished Nellie. "Dick, isn't there any ice on
board of the _Golden Wave_?"
"By Jove! I think there is," cried the oldest Rover boy. "I never
once thought of it before."
"If there is, I wish you'd bring some the next time you go over. We
have lemons, and we could make delicious lemonade."
"And we could make orange ice, too," put in Grace. "I know there was
an ice-cream freezer on board of the ship. It was in the cook's galley."
Old Jerry was coming to the house with a small tree he had cut down,
and Dick sounded him about the ice.
"To be sure there was ice, several tons of it," said Jerry. "It was
stowed away near the bow. I don't believe it's all melted, either."
"I'm going over to see," cried Dick. "We've got plenty of lemons and
sugar; and lemonade, not to mention orange ice, would just strike
the spot in this awfully hot weather."
But as it was now noon, with the sun directly overhead, Dick decided
to remain in the shade until four or five o'clock. Dinner was had,
and then the work of enlarging the house went on as before.
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