The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

e gravel drive near the porch, breathing hard, for he had run very

down the fence and got out. He'

house with you-quick

lossie. "Let me h

ared Freddie. "If I had my fire engin

id his father with a laugh. "Into the house w

lossie, who kept looking back over her shoulder.

Baa!

, Bert and Harry," she begged the two boy co

atch 'em catch

vised Harry, the country cousin.

nger?" asked Mr. Bobbse

pretty rough, I must

the men on the farm

tell you!" exclaimed the hire

ead this way?" a

ell you," his brother

house," he advised. "

he saw his own son an

ling what notions ol

e Upsetter?

s what makes him come to the house now, whenever he gets loose. My wife got in the habit of feeding him salt, which all sheep like very much. I

s were ne

Baa!

who stood with her nose pressed fl

go in?" asked

ad," answere

ticks with which to scare the ram if he came too close. The bi

and drive him into the barnyard, perhaps. Then I can shut

. "If he gets some to eat it may make him gentle, and

armer. "Sam, please go to the hou

niel had said, the ram was headed for the house, which he must have remembered as a pleasant place eve

ired man. Then, pawing the ground with his fore feet, and lowering an

ried Flossie, who could see, fro

he way, dear," said Mrs

g the salt from the hired man, scattered some

ery fond of licking up salt from the ground, and they will go a long way to find it. It keeps c

, though if the salt had not been there he probably would hav

, as if the ram could understand what was

th the clothes line Uncle Daniel made a loop in one end, such a

el tossed the noose of the rope around the sheep's head, a

e caught him!" cried Nan, who s

and look at h

ther, as the two boy cous

danger now, if they ha

t S

ie, "and I'd squirt water on that ram f

me," advised his mother, p

t ugly now. Perhaps the salt made him good-natured. And he was soon le

itement!" exclaimed Na

happened when we we

t," said Harry, with a laugh, for

eed Nan. "That was e

road journey that they went to bed early that night. The sun was shining brightly when they awakened next morning.

sun's shining

a good thing?" B

ad been raining we might have gone fi

?" Bert wan

shipping them away this year, and they

t, the two boys went out to the big orchard, where

hese bags hung around their necks, and when one was full, the man came down the ladder with it. This was so the apples would n

ples on a ladde

may pick those you can reach from the ground. Some of the tree limbs are very low, and y

bags were filled, they emptied them carefully in a wooden bin, and from that bin Uncle D

he home of Mabel Herol

und many things to amu

to the orchard, and p

ou

bag, and you can help

os

he ground are called 'windfalls.' The wind blows them down, and they get crushed and bruised by fal

e on the ground?" asked Bert, for

r-mill, or feed them t

squeakers don't mi

rly all day in the sha

Harry had done enou

poles and go fishi

es. Harry said that morning

apples up from the ground, they found an old sw

house. There was another cat there, and the two soon became great friends. Snap

interest to them, while Dinah, and Martha, who was Aunt Sarah's coo

suttinly does eat a t

finished makin

work, and Bert always lent his cousin a hand. But there were times when they were allowed a play-spell. Sometimes Tom Mason

e done out of doors in the way of farm work. During

id, as they started off with their poles and lines, wel

ch a lot of fi

ish, which Harry threw back into the

ed Harry, as they started home. "I thought rain wa

d a good time, any

d Flossie, Freddie, Nan and Mabel Herold sitting i

"and my fire engine is unpacked now, so I can take that wi

l. "I hope we don't see

raid!" boas

on't be any,"

o take my doll, an

t?" asked Bert. "Are

Flossie. "We're goin

ddie, as though he was

are," ad

out it," Harry sa

his mother. "The children are going to take their lunch t

ing and with joyous shouts and laughter the Bobbsey twins, cousin Harry, and s