The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook

on. Nan gave one look at the strange mixture of the howling Snoop and the gobbling bird in the

"I'm losing all the pins! I

pins she had taken in as a

now!" cried Nan. "We m

a fit!" cri

noop!" wail

omebody!" sh

. "He might bite, if you touched hi

t gave him the fit?"

er," answered Harry.

It's enough to gi

rt. "Look out! They're comi

sliding, rolling and tumbling over the barn floor toward the board seats whe

of the haymow, and were out of the way. But the boys wan

been exhibited as a raging and roaring lion, and now Snap was barking and growling, trying to understand what was

den cry and little Freddie came running toward the gobbler

Bert. "Snoop may scratch or bite you, or t

et out of the way! Toot! Toot! Clear the track! Chuu! Chuu! Chu

sted Bert, making a spring

f screamed Freddie. "I'm going to squirt water on

ttle rubber hose of his fire engine, and pointed the nozzle at

water, and, by winding up a spring a little pump could b

ter!" cried Freddie, as h

cat and turkey. It was the best plan that

n the turkey's feathers. With a final gobble, the turkey let go of Snoop's tail. The

ie, just like Mr. Punch. "That's the

you did!" exclaime

He must have thought he had been caught in a rainstorm. And poor Snoop was glad

umping any more water. "I'm sorry I got you wet, Snoop, but

noop, who b

r than ever now, as a clown, for the white on his face was strea

mance is over,"

y!" said Nan, as she

see how you boys

mart boys!"

ailed Flossie. "Nan wouldn't

d animal bursting in on us!" exclaimed

Freddie. "I knew my fire

t Snap out now," he said, for the dog was barking loudly, and tr

n, where the black cat

xplained Bert, "and the gobbler came along and nipped it.

" agreed Harry. "Well

turkey did hav

to him. The gobbler, except for the loss of a few feathers, was not hur

another one before they left Meadow Brook farm. But the Bobbsey twins did

pleasant Bobbsey farmhouse, Uncle Daniel paused, w

ar

t Sarah. "Did you think you he

her husband, "and if it's going to rain I

hing, too," sa

e. "Maybe it's the old blac

in!" said Uncle Daniel

ant booming noise, that w

astily from the table

he remarked, "and yet that

d, as they al

is," declared Bert "It so

cousin Harry. "It's back of those

ed their dinners, and now started off on a

Daniel to Mr. Bobbsey.

come!" cr

mother. "Wait unti

e top of the hill. All the while the sound like thunder was gro

it be?"

agine," ans

another minut

ng at one another. The soldiers were divided into two parties. First one party

cried Bert. "I

ey are using blank cartridges. It must be that the soldiers are practicing

attled and flashes of fire and p

a company of men, mounted on horses, galloped toward

he main body and came straight on toward M

" cried Bert "Maybe he