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Updated: June 22, 2025
Twaddles called one morning soon after they had arrived. "I was going to look for you," said Dot importantly. "We're all going over on the ten o'clock boat Captain Jenks' boat, you know. Mother has some letters to mail, and she wants us to take the wash over, that is if Captain Jenks knows any one in Greenpier who will wash and iron dresses.
So this mischievous child took a long string and tied it to each bunch of daisies; then she held it in the middle and allowed them to trail in the water. The Sarah was almost at Greenpier before Meg glanced toward Dot and saw what she was doing. "Dot Blossom!" she cried, rushing toward her. "You'll spoil 'em. Oh, Bobby, look what Dot's doing to the daisies!"
A few days after this Daddy Blossom announced that he was going to Greenpier on important business. "I know, Daddy," shouted Twaddles. "Fireworks for the Fourth of July." Father Blossom was going over on the morning boat to do his shopping, and soon after he had gone down to the wharf the four little Blossoms decided to go to "Mr. Harley's house" to play.
They did; indeed, the twins rather resented the strict supervision under which they made the trip to Greenpier, but when Dot appealed to Captain Jenks, to her disappointment, he sided with Bobby and Meg. "I have an uneasy feelin' that I don't know what you might take into your head to do next," the captain told the surprised little girl.
They had been so busy talking to him, the children, that is, that they had never looked to see where the boat was taking them. Apple Tree Island was only about half a mile from the shore, but perhaps a quarter of a mile further from Greenpier, where the stores and the post-office and the boathouse were built. A bend in the lake hid the island from the town. The ten or so other islands which Mr.
When The Sarah bumped into the Greenpier wharf, the four little Blossoms made a simultaneous discovery. "Jud!" they shrieked in unison. "Jud Apgar! Oh, Juddy!" It was Jud, Jud grinning happily with a traveling bag in one hand and a box in the other. "Go easy now," he warned the children as they descended upon him in a body.
"Well, I never!" he said softly, as though speaking to himself. "What is it?" asked Bobby. "May we go?" "I guess it will be all right, Son," replied the captain kindly. "Run ask your mother, and if she is willing, I'll take you all." "Mother isn't at home," explained Bobby. "She and Daddy rowed to Greenpier. She would say yes, I know she would." "Well all right!" decided Captain Jenks.
The two bunches were tied to the rail as a safe place and one in which they would not be easily crushed. The motor-boat by the way, its name was The Sarah, painted in green letters; you haven't been told that before, have you? was now chugging down the lake toward Greenpier, and Bobby and Meg were taking their first lesson in managing the wheel.
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