The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City

n she heard that the family was ab

he ice-boat?" Fred

you're going," s

no chance to sail one in New York City

ng to New York?

er fathe

ine!" cried Freddie. "They have fir

to put them out-larger ones than we have in Lakeport. But

s going to start a new business, from which he hoped to make a great deal of money, and he had to go to New York to see about

came to go to New York he would take her and the

start?" Flo

asked Fred

aps longer. You children have to have some new clothes, and Daddy has to look after his bu

ap and Snoop?"

ake them!" b

with pet cats and dogs," said Bert. "T

er one of 'em to get

that part was over. Every time they went away it was always hard

" cried Bert. "I want to see some of

nue," declared Nan. "Mother, do you think I could have a real dress from New York?" she asked

hear what Flossie and Freddie most want to see i

moment, and then the blue-eyed boy

watch the firemen put it out.

And how about my little fat fairy?" and he playfully

wer at once, but wh

mon

" repeated

and how they do such funny tricks their cages. T

eddie. "Can I see the m

no big fires will occur while we are in New York. As for

o the great city of New York, they could hardly sleep t

At this Nan helped some, but Flossie and Freddie could not, for they were too small. Bert ran on a number of errands

d make up, when they came back, any lessons they should miss. And as Nan and Bert were ahead of their class, and as Flossie and Freddie

n had said good-bye to their many friends and playmates, Dinah and Sam had gone away and the

ok after, and Bert had said Tommy Todd could sail the ic

he house had been locked and the big automobile that was to ta

e train, Daddy

e there," her father

twins, baggage and all, and off they star

oodchopper was seen moving slowly down the vill

y, "Did you see if you could help hi

. He can keep warm, for he has a stove and can cut all the wood he wants. I sent

end him? He was so go

ney and he won't let me spend any on him. But when I come back from New York

ood, saw the children in the automobile and

something from New

, and then he wouldn't be lonesome.

ink what they would help to bring back fr

ne seat, with Father and Mother Bobbsey behind them, were looking out

r way to the grea

, for by this time the twins had traveled so often that a railroad train w

the snow-covered country, now passing some sm

lossie and Freddie would remember how they were tossed out of the ice-boat, a

nia railroad train that took them over the New Jersey meadows. They crossed two rivers and then Flos

tunnel!" cr

ddy?" aske

the Hudson River. In a little

selves down in a sort of big hole in the ground, for the Pennsylvania tr

ttle later, Flossie, Freddie and the others stood under the roof of the great station in New York