Identifier: bobbseytwinsatme00hope (find matches)
Title: The Bobbsey twins at Meadow Brook
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hope, Laura Lee
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Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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o teH theirmother of meeting the man who was lookingfor Frank. She said they had done right totell what they knew. l88 BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOI^ Poor boy/ she sighed, he hasnt had avery happy life, but perhaps this will be allfor the good, and he may be better treatednow. That afternoon, as Harry and the Bobbseychildren, with Tom Mason and Mabel Heroldwere going down the road to pick some black-berries, they met a farmer boy driving anempty hay wagon. This boy knew Bert, Harryand Tom. Hello! he called to them, did you hearthe news about the circus? What news? asked Bert, wondering ifthe boy meant that Mr. Mason had reached theshow and taken away Frank. News about the wild animals escapingfrom the circus, went on the boy on the hay-wagon. Wild animals escaping! exclaimed Nan,with a frightened look over her shoulder, whileFlossie came over closer to her sister. Thats it! said the boy. When theshow was moving out of Rosedale last night,some tigers and lions got loose, and ran off tn
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UP, UP, UP, WENT THE RED AND BLUE BALLOONS. The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook. Page 184 r. PUi -OR, L.BNO> -SN FOUML A WILD ANIMAL SCARE 189 the woods. They looked for em, but couldntfind em. Some of the farmers around hereare out now with guns. * Oh, Nan! exclaimed Flossie. Lets goback home! I dont like wild animals!* CHAPTER XVIII WHAT FREDDIE SAW For a few seconds Bert and Harry, hiscousin, stared at the boy on the hay-wagon.Then Harry, who knew him well, asked: Say, Jim Bates, are you joking or did youreally hear about some wild amines escapingfrom the circus ? Indeed Fm not joking! cried Jim. IIdid hear it! Bill Snowden told me. You knowhe lives over on the road that runs from Rose-dale to Blaisdell and the circus went there. Itwent right past his house in the night, and helooked out of his window and saw the camelsand elephants and wild animal cages. * I saw the elephants, too! exclaimed Fred-die. I took hold of ones big toothpick tooth.Elephants eat hay. Were they eating any

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