"Oh, isn't this wonderful!" cried Nan.
"It surely is," said Dorothy, with a sigh. "I never saw anything so
pretty."
"And what queer stones!" cried Bert, as he picked up some that had
been worn into odd shapes by the action of the water.
The Bobbseys spent some little time at the waterfall, and then, as
there was a pretty little island near it, where picnic parties often
went for the day, they went there in the Bluebird, going ashore for
their dinner.
"But I'm not going to play Robinson Crusoe again," said Freddie, as he
remembered the time he had been caught in the cave.
At the end of a pleasant day on the island, the Bobbseys again went on
board the houseboat for supper.
"We'll watch sure to-night," said Bert to Harry, as they got ready for
bed. "We won't go to sleep at all."
"All right," agreed the country cousin.
It was hard work, but they managed to stay awake. When the boat was
quiet, and every one else asleep, Harry and Bert stole softly out of
their room and went to the passageway between the dining-room and
kitchen.
"You watch from the kitchen, and I'll watch from the dining-room,"
Bert told his cousin. "Then, no matter which way that rat goes, we'll
see him."
"Do you think it was a rat?" asked Harry.
"Well, I'm not sure," his cousin answered.
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