CHAPTER V
SAM IS WORRIED
While fathers, mothers, and other relatives were gathering up their own children, or children of whom they had charge, to see that they were safely loaded into the two big trucks to go home from the picnic, the Bobbsey twins—at least Bert and Nan—were searching for their father's coat. Flossie and Freddie were too small to pay much attention to anything of this sort. The smaller twins were talking about the merry-go-round and starting over again the dispute as to who should ride on the wooden lion.
"Are you sure you left your coat hanging on the tree limb?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey.
"I'm certain of it," her husband answered. "And this old coat never was mine—I wouldn't own it!"
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