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Updated: May 22, 2025
Our first volume told all about the Lakeport home, and our second book, "The Bobbsey Twins in the Country," was the story of the Bobbseys on a visit to Aunt Sarah and Uncle Daniel Bobbsey in their beautiful country home at Meadow Brook. Here Cousin Harry, a boy Bert's age, shared all the sports with the family from Lakeport.
Bobbsey, "but you could hardly drive a big horse over those rough roads." The train came to a standstill, just then, on a switch. There was no station, but the shore train had taken on another section. "Can Flossie and I walk through that new car?" Nan asked, as the cars had been separated and the new section joined to that directly back of the one which the Bobbseys were in.
And so the Bobbseys were on their way home in the train when the circus accident happened that brought them to a stop. "And so we nearly ran into an elephant, eh?" said Mr. Bobbsey to the brakeman, who had brought in the news. "Yes, sir. Our engineer stopped just in time." "If we had hit him we'd gone off the track," said Freddy.
And as the trip itself is what you want to hear about, and especially what happened on it, I'll skip the getting ready and go right on with the story. Trunks and valises were packed, Dinah and Sam were told what to do while the Bobbseys were away, and the children reminded the colored cook and her husband to be sure to feed Snap and Snoop plenty of things the dog and cat liked.
With Snap and Snoop now safe, the Bobbseys and Dinah got in a carriage and left the station to drive to their home. On the way they saw the man whose dog had barked at Snap. The man had the animal by a chain and was leading him along. Snap growled as he looked out and saw him. "Be quiet, sir!" ordered Bert. "Yes, be nice and quiet like Snoop," said Flossie.
And then they told all about it. The Bobbseys spent the rest of the day visiting their friends, the Martins, and returned to their hotel in the evening. They planned to have other pleasure going about the city to see the sights the next day and the day following. "Could we ever go into the house where the President lives?" asked Nan of her father that night.
"It looks just like the one Miss Pompret lost, and if it's the same I'll get a hundred dollars! Oh, look, it is the same! Nan, I've found her lost sugar bowl!" cried Bert. Several persons, dining at different tables, looked over to the one where the Bobbseys were. They smiled as they heard Bert's excited voice and saw him with the empty, overturned sugar bowl in his hand.
For a minute or two, as Nan could tell by looking back, the dog did not follow, but just as the Bobbseys were about to make a turn in the path, up jumped the animal and came trotting on after the children and their parents, wagging his tail so fast that it seemed as if it would come loose. "Is he coming?" asked Flossie. "He certainly is," answered Bert, who was in the rear.
It was a beautiful day, and the long ride through the country was indeed a merry one. Along the way people called out pleasantly from farmhouses, for everybody in Meadow Brook knew the Bobbseys. "That's their cousins from the city," little boys and girls along the way would say. "Haven't they pretty clothes!" the girls were sure to add.
For the Bobbseys used to spend each Summer either in the mountains or at the seashore. The second book tells about the good time they had in the country while the third one tells of their adventures at the shore. "The Bobbsey Twins at School," is the name of the fourth book, and in that I had the pleasure of telling you the many good times they had there.
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