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Bobbsey put on his hat, and soon the whole Bobbsey family had reached the place where the boat was tied. At the first sight of her, with her pretty blue paint and white trimming, Nan cried: "Oh, how lovely!" "And how big it is!" exclaimed Freddie his eyes large and round with wonder.
"I will," said Bert, and he turned the steering wheel of his bob while Luke Morton, in the rear, pulled hard on the bell, making it clang out a loud warning. "Look out where you're going, Bert Bobbsey!" warned Danny, looking back. "You're coming over on my side of the hill!" "No I'm not. I'm away from the middle even," said Bert. "Besides, I'm behind you."
Flossie and Freddie both ran back and took hold of their mother's hands. "Don't scare the children, Bert," said Mr. Bobbsey, a bit sternly. "Did you really hear something?" "Yes, father. It's some animal walking behind us. Listen and you can hear it your self." They all listened. It was very quiet.
Peter called lustily, but Ginger only seemed to flop in deeper, through his efforts to raise himself. "Guess we'll have to get Billy to pull," Uncle Daniel suggested, and Mr. Bobbsey hurried back to the road to unhitch the other horse. "Don't let Billy fall in!" exclaimed Nan, who was much excited over the accident. "Can't I go, papa?" Freddie pleaded. "I'll stay away from the edge!"
"Where where are we?" asked Flossie, rubbing her eyes and looking around the room which she had not seen in some months. "An' an' where's our dog?" demanded Freddie. "Oh, bless your hearts that dog!" cried Mamma Bobbsey. "Sam took him out in the barn. You may see him in the morning, if he doesn't run away in the night."
Once, just before they went into the dining car to breakfast, the Bobbsey twins saw in a clearing a big wagon loaded with logs and drawn by eight horses. "Oh, look!" cried Bert, pointing to it. "Will you have teams like that, Mother?" "Well, I suppose so," she answered. "I don't really know what is on my lumber tract, as yet." "We'll soon see," said Mr. Bobbsey, looking at his watch.
Bobbsey wondered why so valuable a dog would leave its home. And he was very much puzzled as to what he should do if the children insisted on keeping the animal, and if it came aboard the trolley car. "There's the car!" exclaimed Bert, as they went around another turn in the path and came to a road.
I want to see Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey, anyhow." "Do you work here?" asked Bert. "Yes, I think you could call it that," answered the man, with a smile. He took Flossie and Freddie by the hands, and they walked along with him, while Bert and Nan followed. On the way back to the camp, or place where the log cabins and other shacks were built, they met a man coming along with an axe on his shoulder.
Only I haven't yet heard what it was that kept Nan so long down at your office," and she smiled. Nan looked at her father, and Mr. Bobbsey looked at Nan. Then they both smiled and laughed. "To tell you the truth," said Mr. Bobbsey, with another smile, "Nan discovered a secret I was not going to tell at once." "A secret?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey in surprise. "Yes, it's about " began Nan.
"Yes, it wouldn't do any harm to take a look," agreed Uncle Daniel. "We'll go in the big tent." Into that large canvas house they went. Men were busy putting away some of the articles used for the animal tricks, and the balls, hoops knives and things the Japanese jugglers had used. "Oh, where can he be?" murmured Mrs. Bobbsey.