"Well, that is I'd seen him before."
"But I can't understand how Freddie became lost," said Mrs. Bobbsey,
while Uncle Daniel was wondering where the strange boy had seen Freddie
before. "How did you get lost, Freddie?" his mother asked him.
"Lost! I wasn't lost!" he exclaimed. "I knew where I was all the time.
I was with the elephants. It was you who got lost, mamma--you and Nan
and Flossie and Bert--"
"Well, we called you lost," laughed Uncle Daniel. "But you're all
right now, thanks to this boy. Do you live around here?" he asked. "I
don't seem to remember you, though I know most of the folks in this
section. But if you have seen Freddie before you must live around
here."
"Oh, no, sir," was the answer. "I'm with the circus. But I used to
live--"
"I know you now!" interrupted Bert. "You're Frank Kennedy, and I was
with my father, calling on Mr. Mason, when I saw you. Freddie was with
me then. Don't you remember, Freddie?" asked Bert. "This is the boy we
saw--the boy we saw getting a--"
And Bert stopped. He did not want to say "shaking," for it was when
Frank Kennedy was being severely shaken by Mr.
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