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We have so many nice rooms on the Bluebird it seems a pity not to use them." "And I'd like one of my boy chums, too," spoke Bert. Flossie and Freddie were busy trying to make Snoop do one of the tricks the circus lady had taught her. But Snoop wanted to go out in the kitchen, and have Dinah give her some supper. "Company, eh?" exclaimed Mr. Bobbsey, slowly. "Well, I don't know.
Flossie threw away the acorns, and she and Freddie began poking in among the leaves again, while the others went to different trees. Freddie soon called: "I've found some! I've found some!" He hurried over to Bert with some shiny brown nuts in his hand. Each nut had a little "tail" fastened to it. "Yes, those are chestnuts," Bert said. "Now see whether you or Flossie will fill a bag first."
Arrived in Venice, Grey's first act was to inquire for letters, but there was nothing from Rome, nothing from Flossie, who had promised him to write. They were too busy with their preparations for taking Bessie home.
"I wonder if he can do any other tricks?" asked Flossie. "I'm going to try," said her brother. "What trick do you want him to do?" "Make him lie down and roll over." "All right," spoke Freddie "Now, Snap, lie down and roll over!" he called. At once the fine animal did so, and then sprang up with a bark, and a wag of his tail, as much as to ask: "What shall I do next?"
And through it, and high above it all, it was as if his soul made music with her; turning the Sonata Appassionata into a singing of many voices, a symphony of many strings. So lost was he that he failed to perceive the effect of her playing on the audience of the outer room. Flossie sat there, very quiet in her awe; Miss Bishop kept her loose mouth open, drinking in the sounds; Mr.
"I wouldn't want to try it," spoke Bert. "Neither would I," said his cousin. "This houseboat suits me!" Flossie was little the worse for her accident, and was soon playing about again with Snoop and Snap, and with Freddie. The little fellow and his sister made the dog and cat do many tricks. It was the day after this, when the Bluebird had gone a little farther up the creek, that Mrs.
And all this time Freddie and Flossie were quite unconcerned playing on the island. "Oh, there's a man!" shouted Freddie, seeing someone in the woods. "Maybe it's Friday. Say there, Mister!" he shouted. "Say, will you help us get to land?" The man heard the child's voice and hurried to the edge of the lake. "Wall, I declare!" he exclaimed, "if them babies ain't lost out there.
Freddie climbed in the wagon and made believe it was a "big fire engine." Bert attached a bell on the side for him, and when he pulled a rope this bell would clang like a chemical apparatus. Nan and Flossie had all their dolls in the pretty new carriage with the soft gray cushions, and in this the little girls made believe driving to New York and doing some wonderful shopping.
"Well, mamma, but isn't chasing your tail a trick?" asked Flossie. "Freddie says it isn't." "Well, it isn't a circus trick, anyhow," declared her brother. "I meant a circus trick." "Well, Snoop is a good cat, anyhow," went on Flossie, "and I wish we had him back." "Oh, so do I!" exclaimed Freddie, and thus that little dispute ended.
"Maybe about his two sons," Bert went on, as the old man passed from sight toward the lumberyard. "I wish we could help him find them." "I don't see how we could ever do that," returned Nan. Flossie and Freddie stood with their noses pressed against the window glass, looking at Mr. Hickson until he was out of sight down the street.
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