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"Goin' swimming," Bert chuckled, as the stocking followed. They watched, fascinated. The shoe was pulled on again over the bare foot. Then the woman slipped a rock the size of her fist into the stocking, and, brandishing this ancient and horrible weapon, lumbered into the nearest fray. "Oh! Oh! Oh!" Bert screamed, with every blow she struck "Hey, old flannel-mouth! Watch out!
As it was, he gave vent to his excited feelings by being as restless as a mosquito, and asking his mother as many questions as his active brain could invent. "You'll be tired out by mid-day, Bert, if you go on at this rate," said his mother, in gentle warning. "Oh, no, I won't, mother; I won't get tired. See! What's that funny big thing with the long legs in that field?"
"I didn't," spoke Bert, spraying a bed of geranium flowers. "He followed us the night of the circus wreck." "Well, you took him all the same. I know who owns him, too; and I'm going to tell that you've got him." "Oh, are you?" asked Bert. "Well, we think he belongs to the circus, and my father has written about it, so you needn't trouble yourself."
Well, I'm afraid my mother didn't put any drinking water in the box," said George, looking carefully. "Well, I can drink milk," Flossie said. "There's no milk, either," answered George, while the others laughed. "There's a spring of water over there," said Charley Mason, pointing off through the trees. "We could get some water if we had a cup." "I can make a cup out of paper," Bert said.
The water was so smooth that the paddles merely patted it, like "brushing a cat's back," Bert said, and soon the little bark was gliding along down the lake, in and out of the turns, until the "narrows" were reached. "Here's where we get our pond lilies," said Hal. "Oh, let's get some!" exclaimed Bert. "Mother is so fond of them."
He looked from the button to Bert, and then at the space on his coat where a button should have been, but where one was missing. "Well well," he stammered. "Maybe it is off my coat, but but how did you get it, Bert Bobbsey?" "I found it," was the answer. "Don't you want it back?" He held it out to Danny, who took it slowly.
"Oh, I don't know, but " and Nan hesitated and looked worried. Where could Freddie have hidden himself away in the hay, and stranger, still, why did he not answer the many calls made for him? For the children kept shouting as they searched. Bert had made up his mind, after looking about for some time, that perhaps, after all, he had better go into the house and tell his father what had happened.
In they trooped, and you may well believe me when I say that the woman who kept this store had a busy half-hour trying to wait on the four Bobbsey twins at once. Nell and Billy did not want to buy anything, but the Bobbseys did. At last, however, each one had bought something, and then Bert said: "I know where to go next." "Where?" asked Nan.
It struck Bert suddenly that the whole battle was receding and growing small and less thunderously noisy. The Vaterland was rising in the air, steadily and silently, until the impact of the guns no longer smote upon the heart but came to the ear dulled by distance, until the four silenced ships to the eastward were little distant things: but were there four?
Bobbsey and some of the other members of his lumber firm used when they were in a hurry. "Yes, jump in!" invited his father. "Want to come, Bert?" he asked of the older Bobbsey boy. "Yes, thank you," was the answer. "Where are you going?" "I have to go up the lake shore, to a place called Tenbly, to see another lumber dealer on some business," Mr. Bobbsey said.
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