The Bobbsey Twins in the Country

the letter carrier! Let me

my turn this wee

ope. That's from Aunt S

e efforts to reach the front door, which Freddie finally did by jumpi

oy, while his sister stood

in the sewing room, I guess!" Flossie concluded, and so the two started in search o

faces, and both being just fat enough to be good-natured. The other twins, Nan and Bert, were eight years old, dark and handsome, and as like as "two peas" the neighbors used to sa

unt Sarah, always a welcome ha

, when the blue envelope had been open

t that the missive contained an invitation to visit

on in just a minute," and she kept her eyes fastened on the blue paper in

s to know first

Freddie interrupted, s

won't hear," Flossie begged

e mother, "that this is a bea

know that!" brok

" pleaded

summer." "Fine, like it-lovely!" the little boy a

went on Freddie. "Do send a

nly keep quiet we could hear about going, but-you always stop mamma. Please, mamma, read the rest,"

ly just saying-

ion time to see Bert, and she also says, 'For myself I cannot wait to see the babies. I want to hear Freddie laugh, and I want to h

"I'll just hug Aunt Sarah this way," and he fell on his m

eddie wound up, in real satisf

e insisted, while the overcome moth

all?" Flo

oo, but I must keep that for lunch time. N

en Bert and Nan come fro

you must run out in the air now. We have t

brother, as they ran along the stone wall that

r!" the boy managed to say in chunks, for he had never had much

hink about now, and when the school children appeared around the corner

going!" was about al

ie's way of telling the news. But it was at the

her I have found a new kind of jumble chocolate that I am going to teach her to make.' There, daught

ked his lips. "Say, Nan, be sure to learn t

to tell her about going to the country, but so many were talking at once tha

all you-uns be go

en to what Aunt Sarah says about you," and once mor

ah! We have plenty of room, and she

rginie!" the maid declared. "And I likes it fuss-rate! Yes, Dinah

e in the country, and the Bobbseys never disappo