The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore

ore beautiful than

nd still in her white robe, she sat in the low wi

he ocean from a bedroom window!" and she watched the streaks of dawn make maps on the waves. "If I were a writer I would always put

rs were still

ght Nan. "She has never seen the oc

k that made the girl's heart go out to poor Nettie, just like the timid little sun

ousehold was yet asleep. "Perhaps I'll find someone sick or lonely to-morrow who will like them, and it

er and covered her eyes with hands. "It is you, Dorothy!" she declare

wn on the cushions of the window seat like a goddess of morn, for Dorothy was a beautiful girl, all pink and gold, Bert s

"Why, you told me the sun would ri

until respectable people felt like crawling out. I lower my awning and close the inside blinds every night. I like sunshine in reasonable doses

ot wake anyone

back, Nan. Be careful. I am bound to get even," and Nan knew that some trick was in stor

, and the girls raised the window

ally cure Nellie, my l

n't know what a

. They are so wide awake, and never say silly things like-like some girls I know," she

laugh, too. She said she had never been in a carriage un

and she made a mock social bow. "Come to see me some time and have some of my dawn, only don't come before eleven A.M. or you might get mixed up, for its awful

ht as she saw Dorothy bolt in her door li

the only ones who arose

me in to breakfast fro

told Nan, as she took her place at the

joy it," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "But I'm sure you ha

ty of ocean to spare. Now, Freddie," went on Dorothy, "when we finish breakfast I am going to show yo

m?" asked Freddie, remembering hi

dy was near enough red, whi

t rather suddenly and then mad

ing the pretty gray animals. "I think they ar

goats and donkeys,

early, so we will give her an

after. The cart was one of those pretty, little basket affairs, with seats at the side, and Bert was very proud of being able to drive a team. There were Dorothy, Nan, Freddie, Flossie, and Bert in the cart when they

thinking of the little city girl who had o

p to the city to bring

r the depot wagon j

ep their own horses, but simply had to telephone from the

as Bert drove nearer the noise of the waves

ted it for the summer,-and about eleven o'clock we will come down and take a dip. Mamma alw

" asked Nan,

lied the cousin. "And I a

t it must be awfully hard

here, and lots of girls are learning every day. You can drive right along the be

n! Even Freddie stopped exclaiming, and just watched the waves,

n the waters, they seemed like mountains that would surely cover up the donkey cart. But when they

cart, a pony cart, came along. "We have lovely times toget

even Freddie remembered to raise his cap, something

ncing class is going t

you like da

in a boy's indifferent wa

drills and exercises. Mamma doesn't believe in young children g

hy, "only the two-step and minuet. I think

vienne," said Nan, "th

d-time dances, but they

me of the girls want it, but I don't like wigs and long dresses

play, and I can't see how any girl can dance

hose affairs. If he should step on a skirt there surely would be trouble," and he snapped his

en't had a chance to see our own place yet, but I thought you

clared Nan. "It is pleasanter n

g," Dorothy told her. "That is

he children drove up to the side porch they found Mrs. Bo

her how big the ocean was, and Flossie declared

and arrange her room. I think the front room over Nan's will be best. Now get out all your

ay, "we'll make her room look like-like a valentine," she finished, al

lossie looking on, we

ie's

may not feel at home; and we certainly want her to enjoy

e loves blue. She said so when w

off one after the other, just when Nellie gets to bed, say about nine o'clock. We'll hide them so she will just about find one when the other

nswered Nan, "and I'm sure

tty little room. Nan ran downstairs an

someone good," she said

ts' bouquets. I suppose that's from the country air. Now I'll go collect clocks," and without asking any

smile, for the slang. "It goes off for fifteen minutes

has gotten into colle

ike hazing

t to make her laugh. College boys, they say, do all sorts of

do hazing," said Nan, feeling for her brother

fellow, and they played such tricks on me, I would

in their coffee,

nd if the professors can't stop it they s

ou mustn't look where I put them," and she insisted that not even Nan should know the mystery of the clocks. "This will be a real surprise party," fi