In the morning the children could see where some big tree
branches had blown off, and there had been so much rain, that the
water of the creek was higher. But the houseboat was all right, and
after breakfast, when they went up the creek again, they stopped and
got the pieces of broken rope, where the Bluebird had been tied
before.
The houseboat then went on, and at noon, just before Dinah called them
to dinner, Nan, who was standing near her father at the steering
wheel, cried:
"Oh, what a lot of water!"
"Yes, that is Lake Romano," said Mr. Bobbsey. "We'll soon be floating
on that, and we'll spend the rest of our houseboat vacation there."
"And where shall we spend the rest of our vacation?" asked Bert, for
it had been decided that the houseboat voyage would last only until
about the middle of August.
"Oh, we haven't settled that yet," his father answered.
On and on went the Bluebird, and, in a little while, she was on the
sparkling waters of the lake.
"I don't see any waterfall," said Freddie, coming toward his father,
after having made Snap do some of his circus tricks.
"The waterfall is at the far end of the lake," said Mr. Bobbsey.
"I wonder if there are any fish in this lake?" spoke Bert.
"Let's try to catch some," suggested his cousin Harry, and soon the
two boys were busy with poles and lines.
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