Chapter 2 JULIAN, DICK - AND HENRY
　　George was quite a different person now that she knew her two cousins were coming the next day.
　　She was even polite to Henrietta!
　　Captain Johnson scratched his head when he heard that the boys were arriving. 'We can't have themin the house, except for meals,' he said. 'We're full up. They can either sleep in the stables or have atent. I don't care which.'
　　'There will be ten altogether then,' said his wife. 'Julian, Dick, Anne, George, Henry - and John,Susan, Alice, Rita and William. Henry may have to camp out too.'
　　'Not with us,' said George, at once.
　　'I think you're rather unkind to Henry,' said Mrs. Johnson. 'After all, you and she are very alike,George. You both think you ought to have been boys, and...'
　　'I'm not a bit like Henrietta!' said George, indignantly. 'You wait till my cousins come, Mrs.
　　Johnson. They won't think she's like me. I don't expect they'll want anything to do with her.'
　　'Oh well, you'll just have to shake down together somehow, if you want to stay here,' said Mrs.
　　Johnson. 'Let me see. I'd better get some rugs out. The boys will want them, whether they sleep in thestables or in a tent. Come and help me to look for them, Anne.'
　　Anne, George and Henry were a good bit older than the other five children staying at the stables, butall of them, small or big, were excited to hear about the coming of Julian and Dick. For one thingGeorge and Anne had related so many of the adventures they had had with them, that everyone wasinclined to think of them as heroes.
　　Henrietta disappeared after tea that day and could not be found. 'Wherever have you been?'
　　demanded Mrs. Johnson when she at last turned up.
　　'Up in my room,' said Henrietta. 'Cleaning my shoes and my jods, and mending my riding-jacket.
　　You keep telling me to, and now I've done it!'
　　'Aha! Preparing for the heroes!' said Captain Johnson, and Henry immediately put on a scowl¹ verylike the one George often wore.
　　'Nothing of the sort!' she said. 'I've been meaning to do it for a long time. If Georgina's cousins areanything like her I shan't be very interested in them.'
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　　'But you might like my brothers,' said Anne, with a laugh. 'If you don't there'll be something wrongwith you.'
　　'Don't be silly,' said Henrietta. 'Georgina's cousins and your brothers are the same people!'
　　'How clever of you to work that out,' said George. But she felt too happy to keep up the sillybickering for long. She went out with Timmy, whistling softly.
　　'They're coming tomorrow, Tim,' she said. 'Julian and Dick. We'll all go off together, like we alwaysdo, the five of us. You'll like that, won't you, Timmy?'

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