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"I wish I could find Miss Pompret's dishes and get the hundred dollars." "So do I!" sighed Nan. But their father shook his head and told them not to hope or think too much about such a slim chance as that. Flossie and Freddie were in bed and asleep when Mr.
"But, Mother, that's the only way I could tell if it was Miss Pompret's!" said the boy, while Flossie and Freddie looked curiously at the heap of square lumps of sugar where Bert had emptied them in the middle of the table. "Let me see that bowl, Bert," said Mr. Bobbsey a bit sternly. "I think you are making a big mistake. This isn't at all like the kind of china Miss Pompret has.
"Wait a minute!" cried Bert, as Billy was about to pass on. "I want to look here!" "What for?" Billy asked. "You don't need any dishes!" "I want to see if Miss Pompret's sugar bowl and cream pitcher are here," Bert answered. "If Nan or I can find them we'll get a lot of money, and I could spend my part while I was here."
There were also the initials "J. W." which might stand for Jonathan Waredon, the man who made such rare china. "Well, I should say that these pieces were just like those in Miss Pompret's set," said Mrs. Bobbsey, after a pause. "But whether they are exactly the same or not, I can't tell. She would have to look at them herself." "I wish we could hurry home and show them to her," sighed Nan.
"But I don't imagine those two missing pieces of Miss Pompret's set will be at Mount Vernon, Nan." "No, I don't s'pose so," sighed the little girl. "But, oh, I would like to find 'em!" "And get the hundred dollars reward!" added Bert. "Don't think too much of that," advised their mother.
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."
"Lan' sakes! Do tell!" cried Dinah. "And we found Miss Pompret's dishes!" broke in Nan. "And we're going to get the hundred dollars reward," added Bert. "'Cept, of course, if they aren't the right ones you can have 'em for souvenirs, Dinah." "Bress yo' heart, honey lamb! Dinah's got all she wants when yo' all come back. Now I go an' git somethin' to eat!"
"Oh, I was just thinking," went on Nan, "that if they had a lot of old- fashioned things there they might have Miss Pompret's sugar bowl and cream pitcher, and we could get 'em for her." "How could we?" asked Bert. "If they were there they'd belong to Washington, wouldn't they, Daddy?" "Well, I suppose all the things in the house once belonged to him or his friends," said Mr. Bobbsey.
Christmas had come and gone, bringing much happiness, and it was because they had discovered some of Miss Pompret's missing china in a very strange way that the Bobbsey twins had a much nicer Christmas than usual.
"What are they?" her brother wanted to know. "Why, they're rare china. When I grow up I'm going to have a set just like Miss Pompret's." "With the dog on the bottom?" "Tisn't a DOG, it's a LION!" exclaimed Nan. "Well, it looks like our dog Snap," declared Bert. They ran on home to find their mother out at the gate looking up and down the street for them.
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