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The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

Chapter 5 SNAP'S ESCAPE

Word Count: 1606    |    Released on: 04/12/2017

en crate in which Snoop made his journeys. The twins each had hold of

way, I tell you!"

sie, and then they both tried, at the same

ut, and scrambl

is mean, Flossie and Freddie? Don't you know the

t Snoop in his cage

o I!" cri

put him in, tail end first!" w

o in head first," she exclaimed, "and you know, Nan, if you stand Snoop on his hea

il first he'll get al

o was almos

, and they have enough to look after as it is, with the auto here,

p in tail first!

let go of the black cat. Snoop looked sadly at Nan, as though he wished she would rescue him, an

really don't know what to do! I gues

ied Flossie

d Bert, running around to the side p

wins!" said N

op to go in tail end first, and he'll get all t

d first, and he'll get dizzy same as

ried Bert, like a manly lit

llingly enough. If Snoop could have talked he would h

likes to land feet first," he explained, "then he won't get tangled up in his tail, nor dizzy. Now, Flossie and Freddie, h

st!" cried Freddie, a h

t way?" asked Flossie, as she put her chubby hand in he

who carried Snoop in his cage. The black cat curled up

. Nan and Bert explained, while Flossie and Fr

you, Dinah?" for the colored cook was being taken t

nswer. "Heah, Freddie, let ole Dinah carry dat cat-box,"

Freddie insisted, and he w

ook after the Bobbsey city house, and he wa

Flossie, as they were

re would have been room for him to ride in it, but he preferred racing along th

ssie and Freddie took turns looking in at black Snoop through the slats of the box, Nan and Bert helped gather the valises into one pile. Mr. Bobbsey

d a ringing of the bell, the engine, dr

!" called t

e getting off. Mr. Bobbsey gathered his little

Flossie and Freddie up the steps, and helped Mrs. Bobbsey a

ked up the box containing Snoop. "Am dish good to eat?

p!" cried Flossie.

ed the colored porter. "I thought maybe i

, with the Bobbseys safely in their chair car, the

th," remarked Freddie, as he listen

g up hill," said B

she had seen that Flossie and Freddie were all right. Nan and Bert looked after themselves, and Mr. Bobbsey, having seen that his family was comfo

, when they were not taking turns peeking in at Snoop. As for the black ca

e he had been to Cuba, when the circus lady to

etting along in the bag

t. "I think I'l

let you?" inqui

know. I'l

out letting Bert pass from one car t

apa," said the boy. "It's like

know," said Mr.

ts to see about the dog," said a b

aid Mr. Bobbsey. "

vestibules," that made the train like one big railway coach. And as it was slowing up to stop at a statio

ndstill the boy took the chain off the dog's collar, and let him run about the

o run about a bit,

could make. The man in the baggage car had seen to it that

" suggested the baggage man, after

t then, Snap, looking out of the door of the baggage car, saw a strange dog on the

rom Bert's grasp on his collar, and leaped out of the

cried Bert. "C

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