The Bobbsey Twins at School
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