"And I'll come with you," said Freddie. "I'm going to be fireman!"
Gleefully the children were running about, clapping their hands, and
finding something new and strange every minute.
"Where is your room, mamma?" asked Nan. "We ought to have let you and
papa have first choice."
"Oh, there are plenty of rooms," said Mr. Bobbsey. "Let's go up on
deck and---"
He stopped suddenly, and seemed to be listening.
"What is it?" asked his wife.
"There seems to be some one on this boat beside ourselves," answered
Mr. Bobbsey. "I'll go look."
CHAPTER V
THE STRANGE BOY
The Bobbsey twins looked at one another, and then at their mother, as
Mr. Bobbsey went out of the living room of the houseboat, toward the
stairway that led up on deck.
Bert tried to look brave, and as though he did not care. Nan moved a
little closer to her mother. As for Flossie, she, too, was a little
frightened, but Freddie did not seem at all alarmed.
"Is it somebody come to take the boat away from us?" he asked in his
high-pitched, childish voice. "If it is--don't let 'em, papa."
They all laughed at this--even Mr. Bobbsey, and he turned to look
around, half way up the stairs, saying:
"No, Freddie, I won't let them take our boat."
"Pooh! Just as if they could--it's ours!" spoke Bert.
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