The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp

lso worried, thinking perhaps they all might have to stay out in the woods all night, if they could n

lifted the hood over the motor to see what was wrong, and the strange sound so startled this Bob

nted Bert,

, as if he did not know what had happened, that Flossie and Freddie laughed. A

up from his task of throwing the gleams of a flas

sat down sudden, that's all. But w

bbsey twins had come to Cedar Camp

es again!" e

eir mother, and even Nan seemed a littl

w, it's only a bird with feathers and big, staring eyes. And, very likely

Freddie, climbing away from his mother

nces are you can't see it. Owls keep pretty

ry fast, Dick. And unless we get to camp soon-well, you know what may happ

"Bert, please come here a

tartled him, and went to hold the flash lamp. As he sent the beam moving about, in order to direct it just where his fat

re i

ur bright light, because it hurts his eyes. So he flew away. Now come on, Bert, and we'll g

xpect us?"

er father. "Hold the

quested, and after a little ex

n a spark plug! That's easily fixed. We'l

and his father got back in, there was a chugging and throb of the motor, and off they went

id Mr. Bobbsey, as he carefully steered the ca

e don't have to stay out in the w

ds all night-if owls didn't bite you-

little girl. "But I'd rather be in

uld, too," ag

, almost before the twins knew it, the car had turned from the dense w

f them, and outside others, lanterns were glowing, so the p

cried Bert.

e are-a little late, but better lat

ng, and the children could see the various cab

. Bobbsey?" a

," was the answe

and wouldn't get here until

rough clothes, but whose face had a kind smile and whose blue eyes l

ey. "And one of your owls seemed to think we h

amp. "Well, they sure are queer birds! Make an outlandish racket, sometimes. But come on

rs. Bobbsey. "The children

said the foreman to Mr. Bobbsey.

re yet?" asked the

any day. I heard you had

," Freddie chimed in. "We did

g for this attention. "Well, when we do get snow up here we generally get a lot, and it may co

ees?" asked Mr. Bobbsey. "T

"We sent a lot off from here, but they must be stuck somewhere on the railroad d

then, when he joined them, the family, led by the foreman, walked toward the largest cabi

o was to do the cooking and help Mrs. Bobbsey during the stay

"But daddy soon fixed it. And we he

y," answered Mrs. B

either," s

arge one, and had been used by a former foreman with a large family. There were several b

to cook for the Bobbseys during their stay. She and her husband lived in one of the smaller

to the table," cried Mrs. Baxter. "The s

nough to eat almost anything,"

very good indeed, and Flossie and Freddie passed their plat

won't be anything

reddie anxiously, pausing with

's only joking!" she said, with

little more,"

at the camp after supp

s father told him. "You'll have plenty of

en he took a look after leaving the ta

an Cedar Camp. They sat and talked a little while after the meal, and then, when Flossie and Freddie began t

ossie, awakened from a sound sleep, heard a gre

! What's that?"

going to work," Mr

in the night?" Flo

be up," her mother told the little girl

should have to get up and go to work in the night. It was dark, and th

ey have to go out to cut Christmas trees in the dark, same as

til it was broad daylight. She found that all were up save Freddie and herself

at Mrs. Baxter was baking buckwheat cakes and had

, Mother?" cried Flossie. "I c

all of you!" said Mrs. Bobbsey

to see when I'm baking cakes," laughed the good-natured cook.

y we-we'll give her somet

e, holding out his p

the woods around the camp, while Mr. Bobbsey went to talk w

ar away," he ca

t?" she

and the children might get lost. There aren't m

," she

holds many of its leaves all winter, the old ones being pushed off in the spring as the new ones come on. But there were so many spruce, pine, hemlock, and cedar trees growing all about-

e!" cried Freddie, running

queer thing-or at least a queer thing happened to the little fellow. His feet seemed to

ried Flossie. "What

de it again!" cried Freddie, jumping up and scrambli

her little brother go down the hill standing up, just as h

d with the long, brown, smooth pine needles, and they make a slip

eat fun sliding down the slippery pine-needle-cov

ething on the ground that made him exclaim i

hestnut! Are there che

her say something about t

unt for some

Freddie, deserting the pine-need

n all directions they found o

long a little later. "But there's a chestnut grove not far away, up Pi

go chestnutting?" asked B

them?" asked Mrs. B

than a mile and the trail is plain. I'll

chestnut party, little dreaming of the strange things