The Bobbsey Twins at School(读书的鲍勃西双胞胎)
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The Bobbsey Twins at School
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The Bobbsey Twins at
School
LAURA LEE HOPE
The Bobbsey Twins at School
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CHAPTER I A CIRCUS TRAIN
"MAMMA, how much longer have we got to ride?" asked Nan
Bobbsey, turning in her seat in the railroad car, to look at her parents,
who sat behind her.
"Are you getting tired?" asked Nan's brother Bert. "If you are I'll sit
next to the window, and watch the telegraph poles and trees go by.
Maybe that's what tires you, Nan," he added, and his father smiled, for
he saw that Bert had two thoughts for himself, and one for his sister.
"No, I'm not tired of the scenery," answered the brownhaired and
browneyed girl, "but you may sit next the window, Bert, if you like."
"Thanks!" he exclaimed as he scrambled over to the place his sister
gave up.
"Are you tired, dearie?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, leaning forward and
smoothing out her daughter's hair with her hand. "If you would like to sit
with me and put your head in my lap, papa can go to another seat and -
"
"Oh, no, mamma, I'm not as tired as that," and Nan laughed. "I was
just wondering how soon we'd be home."
"I'd rather be back at the seashore," said Bert, not turning his gaze
from the window, for the train was passing along some fields just then,
and in one a boy was driving home some cows to be milked, as evening
was coming on. Bert was wondering if one of the cows might not
chase the boy. Bert didn't really want to see the boy hurt by a cow, of
course, but he thought that if the cow was going to take after the boy,
anyhow, he might just as well see it. But the cows were very well-
behaved, and went along slowly.
"Yes, the seashore was nice," murmured Nan, as she leaned her head
back on the cushioned seat, "but I'm glad to be going home again. I
want to see some of the girls, and -"
"Yes, and I'll be looking for some of the boys, too," put in Bert. "But
school will soon begin, and that's no fun!"
Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey smiled at each other, and Mr. Bobbsey, taking
out a timetable, looked to see how much longer they would be on the
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train.
"It's about an hour yet," he said to Nan, and she sighed. Really she
was more tired than she cared to let her mother know.
Just ahead of the two Bobbsey children were another set of them. I
say "set" for the Bobbsey children came "in sets."
There were two pairs of twins, Bert and Nan, nearly nine years of age,
and Flossie and Freddie, almost five. And, whereas the two older
children were rather tall and slim, with dark brown hair and eyes, the
littler twins were short and fat, and had light hair and blue eyes. The
two pairs of twins were quite a contrast, and many persons stopped to
look at them as they passed along the street together.
"No, sir," went on Bert musingly, "school's no fun, and it starts about
a week after we get home. No chance to have a good time!"
"We've had fun all summer," replied his sister. "I rather like school."
"Mamma, are we going to school this year?" asked Flossie, as she
looked back with a quick turning of her head that set her yellow curls to
dancing.
"If we are, I'm going to sit with Flossie - can't I?" asked Freddie,
kneeling in the seat so that he could face back to his father and mother.
Indeed his request was not strange, since the two younger twins were
always together even more so than their brother and sister.
"Yes, I think you and Freddie will start school regularly this term,"
said Mrs. Bobbsey, "and, if it can be arranged, you may sit together.
We'll see about that. Be careful, Freddie, don't put your head out of the
window," she cautioned quickly, for the little chap had turned in his seat
again, and was leaning forward to see a horse galloping about a field,
kicking up its heels at the sound of the puffing engine.
"It's my turn to sit by the window, anyhow," said Flossie.
"It is not! We haven't passed a station yet," disputed Freddie.
"Oh, we have so!" cried his little sister. "Freddie Bobbsey!" and she
pointed her finger at him.
"Children - children," said Mrs. Bobbsey, reprovingly.
"Are you two taking turns?" asked Bert, smiling with an older
brother's superior wisdom.
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"Yes," answered Flossie, "he was to have the seat next to the window
until we came to a station, and then it's to be my turn until we pass
another station, and we have passed one, but he won't change over."
"Well, it was only a little station, anyhow," asserted Freddie, "and it
came awful quick after the last one. It isn't fair!"
"There's a seat up ahead for you, Bert," suggested Mr. Bobbsey, as a
gentleman got up, when the train approached a station." You can sit
there, and let Flossie or Freddie take your place."
"All right," answered Bert goodnaturedly, as he got up.
The train rolled on, the two younger twins each having a window now,
and Nan occupying the seat with her little brother. For a time there was
quietness, until Mrs. Bobbsey said to her husband:
"Hadn't you better get some of the satchels together, Richard, and tell
Dinah what she is to carry?"
"I think I will," he answered, as he went up the car aisle a little way
to where a very fat colored woman sat. She was Dinah, the Bobbsey
cook, and they took her with them always when going away for the
summer. Now they were on their way to their city house, and of course
Dinah came back, too.
"Mamma, I'm thirsty," said Flossie, after a bit. "Please may I get a
drink?"
"I want one, too," said Freddie quicky. "Come on, Flossie, we'll both
go down to the end of the car where the water cooler is."
"There's no cup," Nan said. "I went a little while ago, but a lady let
me take her glass."
"And if there was a cup, I would rather they didn't use it," said Mrs.
Bobbsey. "One never knows who has last handled a public cup."
"But I want a drink," insisted Flossie, a bit fretfully, for she was tired
from the long journey.
"I know it, dear," said her mamma gently, "and I'm getting out the
silver cup for you. Only you must be very careful of it, and not drop it,
for it is solid silver and will dent, or mar, easily." She was searching in
her bag, and presently took out a very valuable drinking cup, gold lined
and with much engraving on it. The cup had been presented to Flossie
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and Freddie on their first birthday, and bore each of their names. They
were very proud of it.
"Now be careful," warned Mrs. Bobbsey, as she held out the cup.
"Hold on to the seats as you walk along."
"I'll carry the cup," said Freddie. "I'm the biggest."
"You are not!" declared his sister quickly. "I'm just as big."
"Well, anyhow, I'm a boy," went on Freddie, and Flossie could not
deny this. "And boys always carries things," her brother went on.
"I'll carry the cup."
"Very well, but be careful of it," said his mother with a smile, as she
handed it to him. The two children went down the aisle of the car.
They stopped for a moment at the seat where Dinah was.
"Is Snoop all right?" asked Freddie, peering into a box that was made
of slats, with spaces between them for air.
"'Deed an' he am, honey," said Dinah with a smile, laughing so that she
shook all over her big, fleshy body.
"I 'specs he's lonesome; aren't you, Snoop?" asked Flossie, poking her
finger in one of the cracks, to caress, as well as she could, a fat, black cat.
The cat, like Dinah the cook, went with the Bobbseys on all their
summer outings.
"Well, maybe he am lonesome," admitted Dinah, with another laugh,
"but he's been real good. He hadn't yowled once - not once!"
"He'll soon be out of his cage; won't you, Snoop?" said Freddie, and
then he and his sister went on to the water cooler. Near it they saw
something else to look at. This was the sight of a very, very fat lady
who occupied nearly all of one seat in the end of the car. She was so
large that only a very little baby could have found room beside her.
"Look - look at her," whispered Flossie to Freddie, as they paused.
The fat woman's back was toward them, and she seemed to be much
interested in looking out of the window.
"She is fat," admitted Freddie. "Did you ever see one so big before?"
"Only in a circus," said Flossie.
"She'd make make two of Dinah," went on her brother.
"She would not," contradicted Flossie quickly. "'Cause Dinah's black,
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and this lady is white."
"That's so," admitted Freddie, with smile. "I didn't think of that."
A sway of the train nearly made Flossic fall, and she caught quickly at
her brother.
"Look out!" he cried. "You 'mos knocked the cup down." "I didn't
mean to," spoke Flossie. "Oh, there goes my hat! Get it, Freddie,
before someone steps on it!"
Her brother managed to get the hat just as it was sliding under the seat
where the fat lady sat.
After some confusion the hat was placed on Flossie's head, and once
more she and her brother moved on toward the water cooler. It was
getting dusk now, and some of the lamps in the car had been lighted.
Freddie, carrying the cup, filled it with water at the little faucet, and,
very politely, offered it to his sister first. Freddie was no better than
most boys of his age, but he did not forget some of the little polite ways
his mamma was continually teaching him. One of these was "ladies
first," though Freddie did not always carry it out, especially when he was
in a hurry.
"Do you want any more?" he asked, before he would get himself a
drink.
"Just a little," said Flossie. "The silver cup doesn't hold much."
"No, I guess it's 'cause there's so much silver in it," replied her
brother. "It's worth a lot of money, mamma said."
"Yes, and it's all ours. When I grow up I'm going to have my half
made into a bracelet."
"You are?" said Freddie slowly. "If you do there won't be enough left
for me to drink out of." "Well, you can have your share of it made into a
watch, and drink out of a glass."
"That's so," agreed Freddie, his face brightening. He gave his sister
more water, and then took some himself. As he drank his eyes were
constantly looking at the very fat lady who filled so much of her seat.
She turned from the window and looked at the two children, smiling
broadly. Freddie was somewhat confused, and looked down quickly.
Just then the train gave another lurch and Freddie suddenly spilled some
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of the water on his coat.
"Oh, look what you did!" cried Flossie. "And that's your best coat!"
"I - I couldn't help it," stammered Freddie.
"Never mind, little boy," said the fat lady. "It's only clean water.
Come here and I'll wipe it off with my handkerchief. I'd come to you,
only I'm so stout it's hard enough for me to walk anyhow, and when the
train is moving I simply can't do it."
Freddie and Flossie went to her seat, and with a handkerchief, that
Flossie said afterward was almost as big as a table cloth, the fat lady
wiped the water off Freddie's coat.
The little boy held the silver cup in his hand, and feeling, somehow,
that he ought to repay the fat lady's kindness in some way, after thanking
her, he asked:
"Would you like a drink of water? I can bring it to you if you
would."
"Thank you," she answered. "What a kind little boy you are! I saw
you give your sister a drink first, too. Yes, I would like a drink. I've
been wanting one some time, but I didn't dare get up to go after it."
"I'll get it!" cried Freddie, eager to show what a little man he was.
He made his way to the cooler without accident, and then, moving slowly,
taking hold of the seat on the way back, so as not to spill the water, he
brought the silver cup brimful to the fat lady.
"Oh, what a beautiful cup," she said, as she took it.
"And it cost a lot of money, too," said Flossie. "It's ours - our
birthday cup, and when I grow up I'm going to have a bracelet made from
my half."
"That will be nice," said the fat lady, as she prepared to drink.
But she never got more than a sip of the water Freddie had so kindly
brought her, for, no sooner did her lips touch the cup than there was a
grinding, shrieking sound, a jar to the railway coach, and the train came
to such a sudden stop that many passengers were thrown from their
seats.
Flossie and Freddie sat down suddenly in the aisle, but they were so
fat that they did not mind it in the least. As surprised as he was,
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Freddie noticed that the fat lady was so large that she could not be
thrown out of her seat, no matter how suddenly the train stopped. The
little Bobbsey boy saw the water from the cup spill all over the fat lady,
and she held the silver vessel in her big, pudgy hand, looking curiously
at it, as though wondering what had so quickly become of the water.
"It's a wreck - the train's off the track!" a man exclaimed.
"We've hit something!" cried another.
"It's an accident, anyhow," said still a third, and then every one
seemed to be talking at once.
Mr. Bobbsey came running down the aisle to where Flossie and
Freddie still sat, dazed.
"Are you hurt?" he cried, picking them both up together, which was
rather hard to do. "No - no," said Freddie slowly.
"Oh, papa, what is it?" asked Flossie, wondering whether she was
going to cry.
"I don't know, my dear. Nothing serious, I guess. The engineer
must have put the brakes on too quickly. I'll look out and see."
Knowing that his children were safe, Mr. Bobbsey put them down and
led them back to where his wife was anxiously waiting.
"They're all right," he called. "No one seems to be hurt."
Bert Bobbsey looked out of the window. Though darkness had fallen
there seemed to be many lights up ahead of the stopped train. And in
the light Bert could see some camels, an elephant or two, a number of
horses, and cages containing lions and tigers strung out along the track.
"Why - why, what's this - a circus?" he asked. "Look, Nan!
See those monkeys!"
"Why, it is a circus - and the train must have been wrecked!"
exclaimed his sister. "Oh mamma, what can it be?"
A brakeman came into the car where the Bobbseys were.
"There's no danger," he said. "Please keep your seats. A circus train
that was running ahead of us got off the track, and some of the animals
are loose. Our train nearly ran into an elephant, and that's why the
engineer had to stop so suddenly. We will go on I soon."
"A circus, eh?" said Mr. Bobbsey. "Well, well! This is an adventure,
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children. We've run into a circus train! Let's watch them catch the
animals."
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CHAPTER II SNOOP IS GONE
"PAPA, do you think a tiger would come in here?" asked Freddie,
remembering all the stories of wild animals he had heard in his four
years.
"Or a lion?" asked Flossie.
"Of course not!" exclaimed Nan. "Can't you see that all the wild
animals are still in their cages?"
"Maybe some of 'em are loose," suggested Freddie, and he almost
hoped so, as long as his father was there to protect him.
"I guess the circus men can look after them," said Bert. "May I get
off, father, and look around?"
"I'd rather you wouldn't, son. You can't tell what may happen."
"Oh, look at that man after the monkey!" cried Nan.
"Yes, and the monkey's gone up on top of the tiger's cage," added Bert.
"Say, this is as good as a circus, anyhow!"
Some of the big, flaring lights, used in the tents at night, had been set
going so the circus and railroad men could see to work, and this glare
gave the Bobbseys and other passengers on the train a chance to see
what was going on.
"There's a big elephant!" cried Freddie. "See him push the lion's cage
around. Elephants are awful strong!"
"They couldn't push a railroad train," said Flossie.
"They could too!" cried her little brother, quickly.
"They could not. Could they, papa?"
"What?" asked Mr. Bobbsey, absentmindedly.
"Could an elephant push a railroad train?" asked Flossie.
"I know they could," declared Freddie. "Couldn't they, papa?"
"Now, children, don't argue. Look out of the windows," adivsed their
mother.
And while the circus men are trying to catch the escaped animals I will
tell you something more about the Bobbseys, and about the other books,
before this one, relating to their doings.
Mr. Richard Bobbsey, and his wife Mary, the parents of the Bobbsey
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