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"Did you get lost?" "Did the ice-boat sink?" It was Freddie and Flossie who asked the last two questions, and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey who asked the others as Bert, Nan, Harry and Dorothy came into the farmhouse. Oh, how good it seemed after their battle in the darkness with the storm! "The ice-boat couldn't go on account of the snow," explained Bert, "so we had to leave it and walk."
"Your ice-boat is a small one. I know, Bert, but in a stiff wind it might capsize if you did not have some other boy along to help you manage it. I guess you and Nan had better come with us in the big sled." "I think so, too," added Mrs. Bobbsey. There seemed to be no other way out of it, and Nan and Bert felt quite badly.
"All aboard!" called Bert, and then, moving slowly at first, the ice-boat glided away from the lumber wharf, skimming over the lake with the entire Bobbsey family, not counting, of course, fat Dinah and her husband, who stayed at home. Nor was Snoop, the black cat, along.
The road runs right along the lake shore and we'll be sure to see them, or hear something of them. They'll be all right." It did not take Mr. Bobbsey and Bert long to get started on the search for the missing ones, for Flossie and Freddie in the ice-boat had sailed around the point of land, as I told you, and were out of sight of their folks. Mrs.
During the momentary pause that followed the bringing up of the ice-boat broadside to the breeze, they could hear the fluctuating surge of deep waters, sucking, plunging in that large dark patch on the ice. An instant more of such rapid progression would have sunk them in it, beyond all hope.
I afterward learned that it was carried off by some people on an ice-boat. The other eagle, whose wing I had broken, now reached the ground, and I ran toward it, determined that I should not lose both of my trophies.
"Do about it?" cried Bert. "Why, we won't do anything about it, except to let them come. Say, this is the best news yet! Harry can go with me on the ice-boat. Hurray! Hurray!" "Yes, and Dorothy and I can skate on the lake!" said Nan. "Oh, how glad I am!" "We'll take them both to Snow Lodge!" cried Bert. "Now we won't have to look for any other boys or girls. Well have our own cousins!
With sparkling eyes, and red, glowing cheeks, the twins got out close to their father's lumber dock, calling their thanks to Mr. Watson. "I'll take you again, some time," he answered, as he sailed off down the lake. "Ah, ha! And so my little fat fireman had a ride in an ice-boat, did he?" cried Mr. Bobbsey that night, when he came home from the office and heard the story.
However things might be, Monsen was the great man, now as always and he gave a thousand kroner out of his own pocket for the help of the needy. Many eyes gazed out over the sea, but the men with the ice-boat did not come back; the mysterious "over yonder" had swallowed them.
Flossie was not quite sure that this was "good," but, for a few seconds, she believed what Freddie had said that the others had jumped off the ice-boat. She did not know that they had been spilled out, as Bert said afterward. "Now watch me steer!" cried Freddie, crawling back toward the tiller, which was the last thing Bert had let go of, as he shot from the boat. "Oh, can you?" asked Flossie.
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