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The Bobbsey Twins at School

Chapter 4 HOME IN AN AUTO

Word Count: 1985    |    Released on: 28/11/2017

hite dog, and with another wag of his f

!" warned M

hat's a good dog, anyone can tell that

ed toward Flossie, who s

s will do," said Mrs. Bobbse

e said to him," spoke up Fre

coming up to where Flossie was

sey. "I guess this dog has been train

ighed Nan. Like Flossie and F

ted Freddie. "Oh, papa, will you get Snoop back?" and

ite a distance yet to go home, and that in a trolley car. There were bundles to carry, weary children to look a

we are only about half way to the trolley. Oh dear! If that circus h

asked her husband. "I

ll not. You

eaded Dinah. "I ain't carryin' hal

r. Bobbsey. "I can manage

was so interested in watching the queer dog t

e was patting him on the head now, for the animal, after m

ossie. "He's just as gentle, and he's soft

"But come along now. Don't pet him any more, or he may follow

along the moonlit path as much like a sol

ain toward the distant trolley that would take them

aid Flossie wistfully, wa

on very far before Nan,

hat dog is f

dden liking to us. But I guess he'll go back where he belongs pretty s

"I sat down so much in the trai

ld not say he was tired if his little sister did not. And

and soon Bert happened to look ba

a," he said. "He's still after

gh the big white dog was running after them, waggi

may think we are trying to take him away. I'll drive him back

n he sat down on the path, and calmly

whip him, papa!"

ut I must be stern with him or he will th

n the path, his head do

d Freddie. "Maybe he h

ble dog like that has

kindly, and he is looking for a n

oke Mrs. Bobbsey. "Oh, I do wish

s sometimes do when they do not want their dogs to follow them. This dog on

ried Papa Bobbsey in a loud

e asleep now, and the family went on. For a minute or two, as Nan could tell by looking back, the dog did not follow, but just as the Bobbseys were about to make a

ing?" aske

who was in the rear. "I guess he w

do it!" beg

t Snoop now, so let us have a dog. And I'm sure

ed Mr. Bobbsey. "Well, well, I don't know wh

?" asked Nan, "and then in the morning we c

gged Freddie and Fl

olley car?" asked Mr. Bobbsey. "

suggested Freddie. "We could tell him

ver cup," ad

e," said Mr. Bobbsey, after he had tried two or three t

we get to the trolley he may get tired, and go back. And if we

ant to lose him

im. He can run along behind the trolley ca

day!" sighed Mr. Bobbsey. "I

ily, now. He came up to Flossie and Freddie and le

decided Mr. Bobbsey, thinking that there would be the best a

ow, he evidently thought. Mr. Bobbsey wondered why so valuable a dog would leave its home. And he was very much puz

the path and came to a road. Down it could be seen the headlight of an

auto, children!" c

auto came up the man in it slowed down his ma

ngine stopped. "If it isn't the Bobbsey family-twi

bor, and a business friend of his. "Oh, our train was held back by a circus wreck

s wreck, eh? Where d

wed us," said

o keep him, too!"

trolley with us," add

on. "Why should you folks go home in a trolley, when I have this big empty auto here?

ake, I'se heah! Can

at, Snoop!" said F

t," added Freddie, bound that his

the auto," inv

Mr. Bobbsey. "Perhaps we are ke

le in, and you'

the dog, too?"

oom for the dog," laughed

soon as the door was opened. Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey lifted in Flossie and Freddie, and

ey with a sigh of relief. She was

d of you, Mr. Blake,

pened to meet you. Are y

sed Freddie

the

ut," explained Flossie. She and her l

the Bobbsey home was reached. There were lights in it, for Sam, the colored man, had been telephoned t

pa Bobbsey. "Come, Flos

They were fast asleep, their heads

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