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Flossie covered those few steps safely, and the eggs were put away in the closet by Aunt Sarah, later to be made into puddings and cakes for the Bobbsey twins. "When are we going to the Bolton County Fair?" asked Bert that evening after supper, when he and Harry were resting after their sport in catching bullfrogs. "And I'm going to ride on a lion!" declared Freddie.
So she was very bitter in her little heart against the man who was the cause of it all; and if she did not instantly throw Keith Rickman over, that was because Flossie was not really such a fool as for the moment she had been made to look.
So many hundreds of little figures, and so absurd and gay, that to sit in that room surrounded by them, to look at them and endeavour to count them, was to go mad. But those figures fascinated Flossie. "Oh, Lord, what a beastly wall-paper," said he. "I think it's sweet," said she. And though she wasn't going to let him have the house, she was ready to quarrel with him again about the wall-paper.
Then they had to have a drink, and Nan went with them to the spring, carrying a glass tumbler she had brought. "This isn't like our nice silver cup that the fat lady took in the train," said Freddie, as he passed the glass of water very carefully to Flossie. "No," she said, after she had taken her drink. "I wonder if papa will ever get that back?"
"When I was a child we didn't smash up handsome toys the way children do nowadays. They weren't so easy to get." "And didn't your niece ever have a little girl?" asked Flossie, beginning to think that in such a case perhaps these dear dishes might come to be her own. "Yes, she did," replied Miss Fletcher kindly, and as she looked at the guest's interested little face her eyes were thoughtful.
"We're bigger than Flossie and Katie and Reginald," said Jeanette, "so we are to have an extra study." "We wouldn't want what you're going to have," Reginald said, "for it's just horrid. I told you my brother Bob said it was all full of chopping folks' heads off, and you didn't believe it, Jeanette Earl, but you'll find out it's so; you see 'f you don't."
Ella had seen her mother and Flossie preparing to go out, but, owing to the friction between them, they neither invited her to accompany them, nor did she venture to ask where they were going. At luncheon, however, the unhappy girl divined from the expression of their faces how they had employed the forenoon. They had been inspecting the Campden Hill house!
"Yes," answered Flossie, "he was to have the seat next to the window until we came to a station, and then it's to be my turn until we pass another station, and we have passed one, but he won't change over." "Well, it was only a little station, anyhow," asserted Freddie, "and it come awful quick after the last one. It isn't fair!" "There's a seat up ahead for you, Bert," suggested Mr.
"Most likely Snoop got frightened when the train stopped so suddenly, and broke loose," said Mr. Bobbsey. "We may find him outside." "I I hope an elephant didn't step on him," said Flossie, with a catch in her breath. "Oh o o o! Maybe a tiger or a lion has him!" wailed Freddie. "Oh, Snoop!" "Be quiet, dear, we'll find him for you," said Mrs.
Freddie and Flossie wanted to watch the skating, and Nan took them to their father's lumber yard. Here was a small office directly on the lake front, where they could see much that was going on and still be under the care of an old workman around the yards.
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