The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

Nan Bobbsey, as she sat down in a chair on th

down the valise he had been carrying, and walked back t

way!" cried little fat Freddie Bobbsey, thinking perhap

rry your own, Freddie,

pretty hea

fat legs fairly "twinkling" to and fro as he came up the walk. "It's got some cookies

ke your package, is it?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, with a

rong enough to carry my own bundle all the way; aren't I, Dinah?" and he appealed to a fat

nah exclaimed. "An' ef I could see dat man ob mine, Sa

tall, slim colored man, who as soon as he saw the party of ret

me t' help us, Sam Johnson!" excl

didn't!" Sam exclaimed, with a laugh, that showed his white teeth in strange contrast to his

t about the size and build of Freddie. "I have only Snoop,

tter help me!" excla

d hurried with them to the stoop. But he had

and leaping about, glad, probably, to be h

bsey, who was carrying the valis

Sam, trying to turn about and look at all the bu

sitting comfortably on the shady

at Flossie, as she set down a wooden cage

ap! Come here!"

d Sam, and, as the colored man of all work about the Bobbsey place had very bow, or curved, legs, Snap

way between his bow legs, Snap's head sticking out one way, and his wagging

p, which might have m

am. "Yo'll upset me!

Sam was so laden down with packages that he could not

ghing so hard that he could hardly sta

run out, and then Sam surely will be knocked over. And there ar

, his fat sides between Sam's bow legs. Snap could go neither forward nor bac

, man!" exclaimed his wife

ad his legs a little farther apart. This released Snap, who, with a happy

were sitting comfortably in the porch chairs, while Sam was opening the fron

igh, as she looked around at the familiar scenes. "My

laimed Sam. "We need rain mighty bad, an' I'v

yeah porch," said Dinah.

bbsey. "Make a cup of tea, first. The dust

ed Nan. "Oh, where

, for her husband had stopped on the way from the houseboat dock, where th

ing shut up in that box." In order to carry him from the boa

get a screwdriver," promised

elf with her pocket handkerchief as she sat in a rockin

ed Nan. "I wish we

half over," went on

gu

efore school begins," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "Now let's see. Have we every

cept papa," said Freddie. "And he's co

demanded Dinah. "I wan

water now. I didn't know jest prezackly when yo' was comin'," he said

ttered Dinah. "Yo' all did

t' do! Why, I cut de grass, an' fed de

is wife with a laugh. "Bring

Snoop out," begged Flossie. "He's t

Right away!" promis

while Snap, the big dog, rushed up and down the lawn, barking loudly to le

nd satchels from the porch. Nan was helping her mother get out a cool kimona, w

here, there, everywhere, renewing acquaintance with the familiar objects about the yard-things they ha

ossie, as she came to a corner of the yard where she

the lettuce I planted,

t weed ou

hildren ran to where Snoop was making the acquaintance of a pussy friend. The cats seemed to like on

use to have a glass of milk and some bread and jam, for it

mmer?" asked Nan, as she sat next to her mo

ited me, but if we can have a trip to the seas

comes home from the office, he will know how much more time h

g you," she went on, for Mrs. Bobbsey insisted upon the children being jus

"When papa comes in, and has had a cup of tea,

"Haven't put out any fires since you got here, have you?" he asked, for Freddie had a great love for playing

for his father was tickling him in hi

went on Mr. Bobbsey, catching

papa, your whiskers prick!" she

lk about what we are to do. The children are anxious to get away again,

ow Brook?" asked Mr. Bobbsey,

," answered his w

h, are we going

nvitation," said Mr. Bobbsey, "and y

ber business long enoug

Bob

e, and everything there is going along nicely. So I think we'll

Oh, how nice!" cr

on Mr. Bobbsey, as the colored cook waddled in. "Mak

aid Dinah, ta

of twins doing the most. They were joyfully ex

r and over on the floor. He rolled toward the door that led from the dining-room to the

ittle Bobbsey chap had rolled right into the cook, and down she went in a heap on the f