106 Katie Summers,

 

tide being low, Katie, Fanny, and the rest took
their spades and went on to the sands, and fine
fun they had. Harry and Tom, with the help
of their sisters, built a castle of sand, and made
a thick wall round it, and a trench beyond
that, and then they fetched water in their little
buckets and filled the trench. When it was all
finished it was a very grand affair indeed.
Then they played at soldiers, and one party was
to try and take the castle from the other, and
there was great shouting and laughing and
fun over this, but it ended in the castle being
knocked to pieces. Not that that mattered
much, as Katie said, when little Lucy began to
cry about it; for if they had not broken it down,
the waves would have done it when the tide
came up, and they could easily build up another
to-morrow.