Bobbsey. "Rats are pretty smart sometimes."
"They are smart enough to keep out of my trap," said Papa Bobbsey. "I
must set some new ones, I think."
"Well, I don't think it was any rat," said Dinah, as she went on
serving breakfast.
There was so much to do that day, and so much to see, that the Bobbsey
twins, at least, and their cousins, paid little attention to the story
of the missing loaf of bread. Bert did say to Harry:
"It's too bad we didn't watch last night. We might have caught whoever
it was that took the bread."
"Who do you think it was?" asked Harry.
"Oh, some tramps," said Bert. "It couldn't be anybody else."
They went ashore after breakfast, close to the waterfall.
"Papa, you said you would show us where we could walk under the water
without getting wet," Nan reminded him.
"Oh, yes," said Mr. Bobbsey. "I have never been to these falls, but I
have read about them." Then he showed the children a place, near the
shore of the lake, where they could slip in right behind the thin veil
of water that fell over the black rocks, high above their heads. Back
of the falling water there was a space which the waves had worn in the
stone. It was damp, but not enough to wet their feet. There they
stood, behind the sheet of water, and looked out through it to the
lake, into which it fell with a great splashing and foaming.
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