The Merriweather Girls and the Mystery of the Queen's Fan

Kit laughed with all her might. 'There I knew I'd get caught at that old joke. Well you see it's this way. Arizona strawberries are the little red Mexican beans, which we pretty nearly live on out there. And the mountain trout are the strips of bacon that are fried to go with them'. 'Oh you mean thing, trying to fool us like that!' shouted Joy, who had been sitting still so long that she had grown tired. Now she danced away down the path with a sandwich held above her head. 'What else would you have for a lunch?' asked Shirley. 'Oh like as not we'd take a Dutch oven along and bake biscuit--and make coffee. They are great on coffee in the desert. Sometimes we have great big picnics when people for miles around come'.