But when they saw the dog they understood.
"Up, Snap! Up!" called Mr. Bobbsey, as the children's pet came leaping
along beside the track. Snap gave one look up at the high sill of the
baggage car door, and then, with a loud bark, he gave a great leap and
landed right beside Bert.
"Say, that dog's a fine jumper!" cried several railroad men who had
come up to see what the trouble was.
"Yes, he is a pretty good dog, nearly always," Mr. Bobbsey said, "but
he made trouble for us to-day. Now, Snap, you'll have to stay chained
up the rest of the trip, until we get to Meadow Brook."
Snap would not like that, Bert knew, but nothing else could be done.
The train soon started off again, and when Bert and his father went
back to the parlor car where the rest of the family were riding they
told all that had happened.
"Snoop is better than Snap," said Freddie as he listened to the story.
"Yes, indeed," agreed his sister Flossie. "Snoop wouldn't jump out of
a train and make a lot of trouble."
"Well, he did run away, once," declared Nan, who did not like to hear
Snap talked about.
"Besides, Snoop is fast in a box, and he wouldn't get out if he wanted
to," added Bert, with a laugh.
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