"Well, be careful not to fall in," his father said. "And now I shall
have to go back to the office again, to do a little work so as to get
ready for going away again. So I'll leave my little fat fireman and
fat fairy for a while," and he smiled at Freddie and Flossie, as he
called them by their pet names.
As the Bobbseys were to leave town soon, they did not unpack very much
from the valises they had brought from the houseboat.
This boat was tied up at a dock in the lumber yard, which was on the
edge of the lake. The children spent the morning playing about in the
yard, some of their friends, who had not gone away for the summer,
coming to join in their games.
After lunch Mr. Bobbsey came up to the house in an automobile,
bringing his wife some things she had asked him to get from the store.
"Oh, may I have a ride?" begged Freddie, when he saw his father in the
machine, which Mr. Bobbsey and some of the other members of his lumber
firm used when they were in a hurry.
"Yes, jump in!" invited his father. "Want to come, Bert?" he asked of
the older Bobbsey boy.
"Yes, thank you," was the answer.
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