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"Run after him," begged Nan. "I'll get Snoop!" shouted Freddie. "And I'll help you," offered Flossie, hurrying along as fast as her fat little legs would take her. Freddie was already half-way down the platform after the black cat. "Come back, children! Come back!" begged Mother Bobbsey. "Oh, Richard!" she called to her husband, "get the children!"
Bobbsey, "and your wife mentioned a Frank Kennedy who used to take your two daughters out rowing. If he had been there to-day the girls probably wouldn't have gone out alone, and drifted away." "Drifted away! What do you mean?" cried Mr. Mason. "Has anything happened?"
PAPA BOBBSEY first looked for some of the circus men of whom he might inquire about the fat lady. There was much confusion, for a circus wreck is about as bad a kind as can happen, and for some time Mr. Bobbsey could find no one who could tell him what he wanted to know. Meanwhile Mrs.
"It's good to be home again," said Mr. Bobbsey, as he looked about the rooms of the town house. "Yes, but we had a delightful summer," spoke his wife, "and the children are so well. The country was delightful, and so was the seashore. But I think I, too, am glad to be back. It will be quite a task, though, to get the children ready for school.
Bobbsey said to her husband: "Hadn't you better get some of the satchels together, Richard, and tell Dinah what she is to carry?" "I think I will," he answered, as he went up the car aisle a little way to where a very fat colored woman sat. She was Dinah, the Bobbsey cook, and they took her with them always when going away for the summer.
"Well, that is I'd seen him before." "But I can't understand how Freddie became lost," said Mrs. Bobbsey, while Uncle Daniel was wondering where the strange boy had seen Freddie before. "How did you get lost, Freddie?" his mother asked him. "Lost! I wasn't lost!" he exclaimed. "I knew where I was all the time. I was with the elephants.
Mike himself, rather ragged, but clean and neat enough, was in the lobby, sitting at his ease on one of the big leather chairs, waiting. "I've brought de goat," he said to Freddie, as soon as he saw that small Bobbsey with Bert. "What does it all mean?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, while a crowd of the hotel guests and help gathered about.
Then from down the hard dirt path they all heard the "pit-pat, pit-pat" of the footsteps of some animal. It was coming on slowly. For a moment Mr. Bobbsey thought of the wild animals of the circus. In spite of what the men had said perhaps one of the beasts might have escaped from its cage. The others in the little party evidently thought the same thing. Mrs.
Bobbsey had said to her husband when they had talked the matter over one night after the twins had gone to bed. "Just see how much they learned when we took them to Washington." "They not only learned something, but they brought back something I mean Miss Pompret's china pieces," said Mr. Bobbsey. "Yes, traveling is good for children if they do not do too much of it."
Tell them we expect to be home before night with Flossie and Freddie." "Oh, if we only can be!" exclaimed Mrs. Bobbsey. "We'll find the little ones all right never fear!" said Mr. Trench. "If you're ready now, we'll start." So while Nan, Bert and Harry remained behind in charge of Mr. Blackford, who had offered to take them home in his automobile, Mr. and Mrs.
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