"Freddie!" exclaimed her mother! "Isn't he here?"
But Freddie was not with them, and with anxious faces they looked at
one another.
CHAPTER XV
FOUND AGAIN
"Where can he be?" asked Bert.
"I saw him but a moment ago," said Aunt Sarah.
"An' he jest had hold ob mah hand!" cried Dinah. "Oh, mah honey lamb
am done et up by de ragin' lion what goes about seekin' who he kin
devouer! Oh landy!"
"Quiet, Dinah, please," said Uncle Daniel. For Dinah had called out so
loudly that many in the crowd turned to look at her.
"But I wants Freddie--mah honey lamb!" the loving colored woman went
on. "I wants him an' he's losted!"
"We'll find him," said Uncle Daniel. "Now whom was he with when we
came out of the tent?"
"He had hold of my hand," said Bert, "but he pulled away and said he
wanted to walk with Dinah."
"De lubbin honey lamb!" crooned Dinah.
"Did he come with you, Dinah?" went on Uncle Daniel, trying to find
out exactly who had seen Freddie last.
"Yais, sah, he done comed wif me fo' a little while in de crowd, an'
den he slid away--he just seem t' melt away laik," explained the cook.
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