The last two hundred yards of path to it was very narrow so that they transported their belongings to the entrance to it in Tom Cobb's donkey-cart, and carried them up to the knoll on their backs.
In other years their outfit had been larger, for their mother had encamped with them.

This year she had not cared for the effort; and she had also felt that ten days' holiday out of the strenuous atmosphere which spread itself round the Twins, would be restful and pleasant.

She was sure that they might quite safely be trusted to encamp by themselves on Deeping Knoll.

Not only were they of approved readiness and resource; but buried in the heart of that wood, they were as safe from the intrusion of evil-doers as on some desert South Sea isle.

She was somewhat surprised by the Terror's readiness to take as many blankets as she suggested.