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Just then there came along two large boys, Frank Cobb, and his particular chum, Irving Knight. "What's going on here; a race?" asked Frank. "It looks that way," said Irving. "Oh, will you push us off?" begged Bert, appealing to Frank, whose father worked in Mr. Bobbsey's lumber yard. "Sure we will," answered Frank goodnaturedly.
"Excuse me, but I didn't mean to do it," answered Bert, and lost no time in getting out of the gentleman's way. The gentleman was very angry and left the ice, grumbling loudly to himself. Down near the lower end of Mr. Bobbsey's lumber yard some young men were building an ice-boat. Bert and Charley Mason watched this work with interest. "Let us make an ice-boat," said Charley.
I'm much obliged to you boys. And to you too, Bert Bobbsey. "Are you Richard Bobbsey's son?" he suddenly asked, peering at Bert from beneath his shaggy eyebrows. "Yes, sir." "Ha! I thought so. You look like him. You do things like him, too, without stopping to be asked. Yes, this is the second time a Bobbsey has meddled with my family affairs. Trying to do me a good turn, I suppose.
"Oh, there is Tom Mason!" cried Bert, as he saw a country boy he had met when on a visit to Meadow Brook some time before. He waved his hand to Tom who was in his front yard, his house not being far from Mr. Bobbsey's. "And there's Mabel Herold!" added Nan, as she saw a country girl she knew. "My, how she has grown!" Nan went on.
Later the Bobbseys would go down in the automobile, one of the men from Mr. Bobbsey's office bringing it back. Sam Johnson, though he used to drive the Bobbsey horse when they had one, never could get used to an automobile, he said. Snap, the jolly dog, seemed to know that something out of the ordinary was going on.
Then, when the fire bells sounded, and they learned what had happened, Danny and all the boys promised each other that they would keep the secret. "Well, Danny, I can't tell you how sorry I am," said Mr. Rugg, when the confession was over. "Sorry not only that Mr. Bobbsey's boathouse was burned, but because you have deceived me, and your good mother, and smoked in secret.
A report had come in that a boy looking like Freddie had been seen on the ice early in the evening, and he did not know but what the little fellow might have wandered in that direction. When the telephone bell rang Mr. Bobbsey had just come in from another fruitless search. Both he and his wife ran to the telephone. "Hullo!" came over the wire. "Is this Mr. Bobbsey's house?"
Then, as the keeper himself went in between the bars, the elephant slowly backed to the far end, his chain clanking as he did so. "There! I got my apple!" cried Flossie, as she picked it up from where it had rolled in the straw. And then, before she knew what was happening, the keeper picked her up and carried her to the outside rail, where he placed her in Mr. Bobbsey's arms. "Oh, Flossie!
How Flossie and Freddie insisted on keeping the dog, now that their pet cat Snoop was gone, how they named him Snap, and how it was discovered that he could do tricks, are all part of the story. There were many more happenings after the twins started in at school. Mr. Bobbsey's boathouse caught fire in a mysterious manner.
Bobbsey's cries of alarm, of course, excited all the other passengers who had got back on the sight-seeing auto, ready to start off again. They had had a little rest while the water was being put into the radiator, and the man had "stretched his legs" all he wanted to, it seemed. "The children can't be far away," said Mr. Bobbsey. "They were here only a moment ago.
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