A few days after this, when the Bobbsey twins reached home from
school, Mrs. Bobbsey met them at the door, saying:
"I have good news for you, children!"
"What is it?" cried Bert.
"Don't we have to go to school any more?" Freddie.
"Are we going on the houseboat sooner than we expected?" Nan wanted to
know.
"It's about your two cousins--Harry and Dorothy," went on Mrs.
Bobbsey. "They have both accepted our invitations, and they will come
with us on the trip! Won't that be nice?"
"Lovely!" exclaimed Nan, her eyes shining with delight. "Dorothy and
I'll have such nice times together!"
"And Harry and I'll catch a lot of fish," declared Bert.
The days went on. The houseboat was nearly ready for her trip. Very
soon school would close.
"Come on, Bert, can't you show us over the boat now?" asked Danny Rugg
one afternoon, on his way home from school, with Nan's brother, and
some other boys.
"I can't to-day, but perhaps I can to-morrow," said Bert. "I'll ask my
father."
"He'll never know about it," tempted Danny again, but Bert could not
be influenced that way.
"Never mind, I'll fix you!" threatened Danny, which was what he
usually said, when he could not have his own way.
Bert thought little of the threat at the time, though later he
recalled it vividly.
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