When she came in she found the irrepressible Henry sitting on the back steps explaining to Katy the strenuous time he had had finding and carrying down the stones they had brought.

Katy had a plate of refreshments ready to hand him when Linda laughingly passed them and went to her room.
When she had finished her letter to Marian she took a sheet of drawing paper, and in her most attractive lettering sketched in the heading, "A Palate Teaser," which was a direct quotation from Katy.

Below she wrote: You will find Tunas in the cacti thickets of any desert, but if you are so fortunate as to be able to reach specimens which were brought from Mexico and set as hedges around the gardens of the old missions, you will find there the material for this salad in its most luscious form.
Naturally it can be made from either Opuntia Fiscus-Indica or Opuntia Tuna, but a combination of these two gives the salad an exquisite appearance and a tiny touch more delicious flavor, because Tuna, which is red, has to my taste a trifle richer and fuller flavor than Indica, which is yellow.

Both fruits taste more like the best well-ripened watermelon than any other I recall.
Bring down the Tunas with a fishing rod or a long pole with a nail in the end.

With anything save your fingers roll them in the sand or in tufts of grass to remove the spines.