"Yes, we'll go home," said Mrs. Bobbsey.
"You can play you are a nurse, Flossie, and take care of your doll.
We'll leave the battle to the boys and men."
"I can stay, can't I?" asked Freddie, who was delighted at the lively
scene down below, and he jumped about in delight as cannon after
cannon went off.
"Yes, you may stay," said his father.
"We'll look after him," he added to his wife.
Freddie crowded up to where Bert and Harry were eagerly watching the
sham battle, and stood between his brother and cousin.
"Boom! Boom!" he cried. "I like this!"
But little Flossie covered her ears with her hands and went on down
the hill, toward the farmhouse, with her mother and aunt. Nan went
with them also, as she said the firing made her head ache.
CHAPTER XII
THE BOBBSEYS ACT
"Well, I guess the battle is over now," said Bert, after a while. The
cannon had stopped firing, and the "soldiers" no longer "shot" at each
other with their rifles.
"See, the men on horses have captured the other men," spoke Harry. And
he pointed to where the cavalry had surrounded a number of the foot
soldiers, or infantry, as they are called, and were driving them over
the fields toward some log cabins.
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