ambition? _To-day_---whatever my aspiration may be to-morrow---_to-day_
I mean to fit myself for architecture and landscape gardening.
And when in the misty future you see the name of Architect Cooper
Fennimore, Adviser in Extra-ordinary to the President-----"

Cooper darted into the Fox-Otter cabin as Spike dashed at him
again, and continued:

"------_then_ you will remember when you studied the ground work
of his profession with him!"

Their conversation was resumed a little later, when, rubbed down,
clothed, and neatly brushed, the two boys responded to the mess call.

"But say, Cooper," said Spike, "were you in earnest about liking
the summer school scheme and wanting to be a landscape artist?"

"I surely was, were, and am," replied Cooper, as the boys slipped
into their places. "I've been watching my uncle-in-law build
a house and lay out his grounds, and if I couldn't hit on a better
plan than his, I'd-----"

"Dig a hole, crawl in, and pull the hole after you?" prompted Spike
as Cooper paused for a comparison.

"Just about," agreed the other; and then both boys found their
nearest ambitions fully met by the camp cook's incomparable bacon
and eggs.

After breakfast the news was quickly circulated that no further plans