I'm going to run away,
and I'm never coming back again. I can't stand it here!"
Bursting into tears, the boy raced off down the road in a cloud of
dust.
CHAPTER IV
OFF FOR MEADOW BROOK
Little Freddie, who sat beside his older brother, Bert, in Mr.
Bobbsey's automobile, looked on with wonder in his childish eyes, as
he saw the boy Mr. Mason had been shaking run down the road.
"What's the matter with him, Bert?" Freddie asked. "Didn't he like to
be shook?"
"I should say _not_!" exclaimed Bert "And I wouldn't myself. I don't
think that man did right to shake him so."
"It was too bad," added Freddie. "Say, Bert," he went on eagerly,
"maybe we could catch up to him in the automobile, and we could take
him to Meadow Brook with us. Nobody would shake him there."
"No, I guess they wouldn't," said Bert: slowly, thinking how kind his
uncle and aunt were.
"Then let's go after him!" begged Freddie.
"No, we couldn't do that, Freddie," Bert said with a smile at his
little brother. "The boy maybe wouldn't want to come with us, and
besides, papa wouldn't let me run the auto, though I know which
handles to turn, for I've watched him," Bert went on, with a firm
belief that he could run the big car almost as well as could Mr.
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