THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY(乡下的鲍勃西双胞胎)

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THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY

THE BOBBSEY TWINS

IN THE COUNTRY

BY LAURA LEE HOPE

THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY

CHAPTER I THE INVITATION

"There goes the bell! It's the letter carrier! Let me answer!" Freddie

exclaimed.

"Oh, let me! It's my turn this week!" cried Flossie.

"But I see a blue envelope. That's from Aunt Sarah!" the brother

cried.

Meanwhile both children, Freddie and Flossie, were making all

possible efforts to reach the front door, which Freddie finally did by

jumping over the little divan that stood in the way, it being sweeping

day.

"I beat you," laughed the boy, while his sister stood back,

acknowledging defeat.

"Well, Dinah had everything in the way and anyhow, maybe it was

your turn. Mother is in the sewing room, I guess!" Flossie concluded,

and so the two started in search of the mother, with the welcome letter

from Aunt Sarah tight in Freddie's chubby fist.

Freddie and Flossie were the younger of the two pairs of twins that

belonged to the Bobbsey family. The little ones were four years old,

both with light curls framing pretty dimpled faces, and both being just

fat enough to be good-natured. The other twins, Nan and Bert, were

eight years old, dark and handsome, and as like as "two peas" the

neighbors used to say. Some people thought it strange there should be

two pairs of twins in one house, but Nan said it was just like four-leaf

clovers, that always grow in little patches by themselves.

This morning the letter from Aunt Sarah, always a welcome happening,

was especially joyous.

"Do read it out loud," pleaded Flossie, when the blue envelope had

been opened in the sewing room by Mrs. Bobbsey.

"When can we go?" broke in Freddie, at a single hint that the missive

contained an invitation to visit Meadow Brook, the home of Aunt Sarah in

the country.

"Now be patient, children," the mother told them. "I'll read the

invitation in just a minute," and she kept her eyes fastened on the blue

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paper in a way that even to Freddie and Flossie meant something very

interesting.

"Aunt Sarah wants to know first how we all are."

"Oh, we're all well," Freddie interrupted, showing some impatience.

"Do listen, Freddie, or we won't hear," Flossie begged him, tugging at

his elbow.

"Then she says," continued the mother, "that this is a beautiful summer

at Meadow Brook."

"Course it is. We know that!" broke in Freddie again.

"Freddie!" pleaded Flossie.

"And she asks how we would like to visit them this summer."

"Fine, like it - lovely!" the little boy almost shouted, losing track of

words in his delight.

"Tell her we'll come, mamma," went on Freddie. "Do send a letter

quick won't you, mamma ?"

"Freddie Bobbsey!" spoke up Flossie, in a little girl's way of showing

indignation. "If you would only keep quiet we could hear about going,

but - you always stop mamma. Please, mamma, read the rest," and the

golden head was pressed against the mother's shoulder from the arm of

the big rocking chair.

"Well, I was only just saying - " pouted Freddie.

"Now listen, dear." The mother went on once more reading from the

letter: "Aunt Sarah says Cousin Harry can hardly wait until vacation

time to see Bert, and she also says, 'For myself I cannot wait to see the

babies. I want to hear Freddie laugh, and I want to hear Flossie "say

her piece," as she did last Christmas, then I just want to hug them both to

death, and so does their Uncle Daniel.' "

"Good! - goody!" broke in the irrepressible Freddie again. "I'll just

hug Aunt Sarah this way," and he fell on his mother's neck and squeezed

until she cried for him to stop.

"I guess she'll like that," Freddie wound up, in real satisfaction at his

hugging ability.

"Not if you spoil her hair," Flossie insisted, while the overcome

mother tried to adjust herself generally.

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"Is that all?" Flossie asked.

"No, there is a message for Bert and Nan too, but I must keep that for

lunch time. Nobody likes stale news," the mother replied.

"But can't we hear it when Bert and Nan come from school?" coaxed

Flossie.

"Of course," the mother assured her. "But you must run out in the air

now. We have taken such a long time to read the letter."

"Oh, aren't you glad!" exclaimed Flossie to her brother, as they ran

along the stone wall that edged the pretty terrace in front of their home.

"Glad! I'm just - so glad - so glad - I could almost fly up in the air!"

the boy managed to say in chunks, for he had never had much

experience with words, a very few answering for all his needs.

The morning passed quickly to the little ones, for they had so much to

think about now, and when the school children appeared around the

corner Flossie and Freddie hurried to meet Nan and Bert, to tell them the

news.

"We're going! we're going!" was about all Freddie could say.

"0h, the letter came - from Aunt Sarah!" was Flossie's way of telling

the news. But it was at the lunch table that Mrs. Bobbsey finished the

letter.

"'Tell Nan,'" she read, "'that Aunt Sarah has a lot of new patches and

tidies to show her, and tell her I have found a new kind of jumble

chocolate that I am going to teach her to make.' There, daughter, you

see," commented Mrs. Bobbsey, "Aunt Sarah has not forgotten what a

good little baker you are."

"Chocolate jumble," remarked Bert, and smacked his lips. "Say, Nan,

be sure to learn that. It sounds good," the brother declared.

Just then Dinah, the maid, brought in the chocolate, and the children

tried to tell her about going to the country, but so many were talking at

once that the good-natured colored girl interrupted the confusion with a

hearty laugh.

"Ha! ha! ha! And all you-uns be goin' to de country!"

"Yes, Dinah," Mrs. Bobbsey told her, "and just listen to what Aunt

Sarah says about you," and once more the blue letter came out, while

THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY

Mrs. Bobbsey read:

" 'And be sure to bring dear old Dinah! We have plenty of room, and

she will so enjoy seeing the farming.'"

"Farming! Ha! ha! Dat I do like. Used to farm all time home in

Virginie!" the maid declared. "And I likes it fuss-rate! Yes, Dinah'll go

and hoe de corn and" (aside to Bert) "steal de watermelons!"

The prospects were indeed bright for a happy time in the country, and

the Bobbseys never disappointed themselves when fun was within their

reach.

THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY

CHAPTER II THE START

With so much to think about, the few weeks that were left between

vacation and the country passed quickly for the Bobbseys. As told in

any first book, "The Bobbsey Twins," this little family had a splendid

home in Lakeport, where Mr. Bobbsey was a lumber mechant [sic].

The mother and father were both young themselves, and always took

part in their children's joys and sorrows, for there were sorrows

sometimes. Think of poor little Freddie getting shut up all alone in a

big store with only a little black kitten, "Snoop," to keep him from being

scared to death; that was told of in the first book, for Freddie went

shopping one day with his mamma, and wandered off a little bit.

Presently he found himself in the basement of the store; there he had so

much trouble in getting out he fell asleep in the meantime. Then, when

he awoke and it was all dark, and the great big janitor came to rescue

him - oh! - Freddie thought the man might even be a giant when he first

heard the janitor's voice in the dark store,

Freddie often got in trouble, but like most good little boys he was

always saved just at the right time, for they say good children have real

angels watching over them. Nan, Bert, and Flossie all had plenty of

exciting experiences too, as told in "The Bobbsey Twins," for among

other neighbors there was Danny Rugg, a boy who always tried to make

trouble for Bert, and sometimes almost succeeded in getting Bert into

"hot water," as Dinah expressed it.

Of course Nan had her friends, as all big girls have, but Bert, her twin

brother, was her dearest chum, just as Freddie was Flossie's.

"When we get to the country we will plant trees, go fishing, and pick

blackberries," Nan said one day.

"Yes, and I'm going with Harry out exploring," Bert announced.

"I'm just going to plant things," prim little Flossie lisped. "I just love

melons and ice cream and - "

"Ice cream! Can you really plant ice cream?" Freddie asked innocently,

which made the others all laugh at Flossie's funny plans.

"I'm going to have chickens," Freddie told them. "I'm going to have

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one of those queer chicken coops that you shut up tight and when you

open it it's just full of little 'kippies.' "

"Oh, an incubator, you mean," Nan explained. "That's a machine for

raising chickens without any mother."

"But mine are going to have a mother," Freddie corrected, thinking

how sad little chickens would be without a kind mamma like his own.

"But how can they have a mother where there isn't any for them?"

Flossie asked, with a girl's queer way of reasoning.

"I'll get them one," Freddie protested. "I'll let Snoop be their

mamma."

"A cat! the idea! why, he would eat 'em all up," Flossie argued.

"Not if I whipped him once for doing it," the brother insisted. Then

Nan and Bert began to tease him for whipping the kitten after the

chickens had been "all eaten up."

So the merry days went on until at last vacation came!

"Just one more night," Nan told Flossie and Freddie when she prepared

them for bed, to help her very busy mother. Bert assisted his father

with the packing up, for the taking of a whole family to the country

meant lots of clothes, besides some books and just a few toys. Then

there was Bert's tool box - he knew he would need that at Meadow

Brook.

The morning came at last, a beautiful bright day, a rare one for

traveling, for a fine shower the evening before had washed and cooled

things off splendidly.

"Now come, children," Mr. Bobbsey told the excited youngsters.

"Keep track of your things. Sam will be ready in a few minutes, and

then we must be off."

Promptly Sam pulled up to the door with the family carriage, and all

hurried to get in.

"Oh, Snoop, Snoop!" cried Freddie. "He's in the library in the box!

Dinah, get him quick, get him!" and Dinah ran back after the little kitten.

"Here you is, Freddie!" she gasped, out of breath from hurrying.

"You don't go and forget poor Snoopy!" and she climbed in beside Sam.

Then they started.

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"Oh, my lan' a-massy!" yelled Dinah presently in distress. "Sam

Johnson, you jest turn dat hoss around quick," and she jerked at the reins

herself. "You heah, Sam? Quick, I tells you. Get back to dat house.

I'se forgot to bring - to bring my lunch basket!"

"Oh, never mind, Dinah," Mrs. Bobbsey interrupted. "We will have

lunch on the train."

"But I couldn't leab dat nice lunch I got ready fo' de chillen in between,

missus," the colored woman urged. "I'll get it quick as a wink. Now,

Sam, you rush in dar quick, and fetch dat red and white basket dat smells

like chicken!"

So the good-natured maid had her way, much to the delight of Bert and

Freddie, who liked nothing so well as one of Dinah's homemade lunches.

The railroad station was reached without mishap, and while Mr.

Bobbsey attended to getting the baskets checked at the little window in

the big round office, the children sat about "exploring." Freddie hung

back a little when a locomotive steamed up. He clung to his mother's

skirt, yet wanted to see how the machine worked.

"That's the fireman," Bert told him, pointing to the man in the cab of

the engine.

"Fireman!" Freddie repeated. "Not like our firemen. I wouldn't be

that kind," He had always wanted to be a fireman who helps to put out

fires.

"Oh, this is another kind," his father explained, just then coming up in

readiness for the start.

"I guess Snoop's afraid," Freddie whispered to his mother, while he

peeped into the little box where Snoop was peacefully purring. Glad of

the excuse to get a little further away, Freddie ran back to where Dinah

sat on a long shiny bench.

"Say, chile," she began, "you hear dat music ober dar? Well, a big fat

lady jest jumped up and down on dat machine and it starts up and plays

Swanee Ribber."

"That's a weighing machine," Nan said with a laugh. "You just put a

penny in it and it tells you how much you weigh besides playing a tune."

"Lan' o' massy! does it? Wonder has I time to try it?"

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"Yes, come on," called Bert. "Father said we have plenty of time," and

at the word Dinah set out to get weighed. She looked a little scared, as

if it might "go off" first, but when she heard the soft strain of an old

melody coming out she almost wanted to dance.

"Now, ain't dat fine!" she exclaimed. "Wouldn't dat be splendid in de

kitchen to weigh de flour, Freddie ?"

But even the interesting sights in the railroad station had to be given

up now, for the porter swung open a big gate and called: "All aboard

for Meadow Brook!" and the Bobbseys hurried off.

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CHAPTER III SNOOP ON THE

TRAIN

"I'm glad Dinah looks nice," Flossie whispered to her mother, when

she saw how beautiful the parlor car was. "And isn't Freddie good?"

the little girl remarked anxiously, as if fearing her brother might forget

his best manners in such a grand place.

Freddie and Bert sat near their father on the big soft revolving chairs in

the Pullman car, while Nan and Flossie occupied the sofa at the end near

their mother. Dinah sat up straight and dignified, and, as Flossie said,

really looked nice, in her very clean white waist and her soft black skirt.

On her carefully parted hair she wore a neat little black turban. Bert

always laughed at the number of "parts" Dinah made in her kinky hair, and

declared that she ought to be a civil engineer, she could draw such

splendid maps even on the back of her head.

The grandeur of the parlor car almost overcame Freddie, but he clung

to Snoop in the pasteboard box and positively refused to let the kitten go

into the baggage car. Dinah's lunch basket was so neatly done up the

porter carried it very carefully to her seat when she entered the train,

although lunch baskets are not often taken in as "Pullman car baggage."

"I'm going to let Snoop out!" whispered Freddie suddenly, and before

anyone had a chance to stop him, the little black kitten jumped out of the

box, and perched himself on the window sill to look out at the fine

scenery.

"Oh!" exclaimed Mrs. Bobbsey, "the porter will put him off the train!"

and she tried to catch the now happy little Snoop.

"No, he won't," Mr. Bobbsey assured her. "I will watch out for that."

"Here, Snoop," coaxed Nan, also alarmed. "Come, Snoop!"

But the kitten had been captive long enough to appreciate his liberty

now, and so refused to be coaxed. Flossie came down between the

velvet chairs very cautiously, but as soon as Snoop saw her arm stretch

out for him, he just walked over the back of the highest seat and down

into the lap of a sleeping lady!

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