The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

ong the shady shores of the lake. The little twin, and the bigger one, sat back on the cus

ner, but then he was so fat, almost "like a lump of butter

his machine to Meadow B

the lumber yard of Mr

d business

aid Freddie. "Or maybe I can ride horse-back. That

ou don't fall

e lake could be seen stretching out its sparkling waters in t

e girls drifting out in that boat, and the

e lake, over the grass at one side of the road. As he

somebody please

ow, and there's anothe

to a craft draw

die," directed the lumber merchant, as he bro

to the two little girl

, and sit still!

so excited that she stood up, and this is always dangerous to do in a rowboat on the water

e, as he saw his father run down to the shore of

d Bert, though he himself would ha

ill, but they wouldn't mind us," went on Ber

. "Girls are awful 'fraid in a

aid, either," said Bert with

our sister, and so

if that made

boat. They did not seem to have any oars, and Bert and Freddie heard t

fting craft, and carefully fastened

'll pull you to shore,

t in a boat all alone

n to come out," she went on. "We just sat in the boat when it was tied fast to the dock, but the kn

tioned Mr. Bobbsey. By this time he had towed the boat, with the girls in i

appened? Oh, ar

. Bobbsey, quietly. "Your children jus

" cried the mother. "Girls, girls! What am I going to do

think this will be a lesson to them, and no harm has come to th

!" she said to Mr. Bobbsey. "I have told Sallie and Jane never to g

r brother?" as

My husband is his guar

Mrs. M

am on my way to your husband's office now, to see

d not worry so much about the girls, as he looked after them. But my husband thinks he is now old enoug

obbsey. "I am going

hough she feared they would run down to the boats again. "My husband has cut a new road through the orc

y answered, "as I haven't very much time

t through an old orchard, to reach the lumber office, and soon, after waving good-bye

p where those girls were

bsey, "they would probably have been drowned if they had fallen overboard

Freddie

Bert a little later, when they turned from

Bobbsey agreed. "I neve

to know when you

gs, boards and planks could be easily loaded and unloaded from boats. Part of the yard was on th

and not very pleasant sight. A man stood there, roughly shaking a boy about Bert's age. The boy seemed to

r. Bobbsey in a low voice,

it?" asked Freddi

shook the boy. "You ought to have better sense than to be cheated that way! It wasn

!" the boy cried, tryin

is, for the man he

arsh tones. "I left you in charge of the office, and you ought to have been

e shook

t, Mr. Mason!"

e hurt, losing money th

a good n

him, and ran down the road. For a moment it seemed as if the man would run after him, but he did not. The two stood

" called the man who had been shakin

you again! You treat me too mean! It wasn't my fault about that bad money! I couldn't h

boy raced off down the