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The Refectory was a large open building equipped with rain-proof curtains also, but on fair days they were rolled up so that it was like a great pavilion. Even the long tables and chairs folded up and could be quickly stacked up at one end of the room if the space was wanted for games or meetings.

Besides the sleeping Nests and the Refectory, there were a tool-house, a carpenter shop for teaching carpentry, a machine-shop to teach mechanics, a library with books and papers to read, and in fact many other departments for the education of boys and girls.

As you read in the last chapter of “The Blue Birds’ Uncle Ben,” the children published their June number of the magazine and planned to suspend for July and August. In this June issue they showed photographs of Happy Hills and the Nests ready to receive tenants for the summer. And as every benevolent institution and child’s hospital, as well as the Welfare Workers and physicians known to be interested in the poor children received a copy of the June magazine, the boys and girls publishing it felt sure there would be plenty of applicants to fill the camp.