This show will be far
away by this time to-morrow."
"And will Frank be away, too?" asked
[Illustration: UP, UP, UP, WENT THE RED AND BLUE BALLOONS]
Flossie. "I like Frank, 'cause he found Freddie."
"Yes, Frank will be away, too, poor boy," said Mrs. Bobbsey, "that is,
if he stays with the circus. I wish Richard could do something for
him," she went on to Uncle Daniel and Aunt Sarah. "I feel sure that
boy ought to be back in his guardian's home."
"But he said Mr. Mason was cruel to him," declared Aunt Sarah.
"Perhaps he wouldn't be any more," remarked Mrs. Bobbsey, wondering
how anyone could be really cruel to children. She loved her twins very
much.
"Well, I'se glad mah honey lamb am safe!" murmured Dinah, as she
cuddled Freddie up in her big arms.
"Oh--oh, Dinah!" cried the little fellow with a laugh. "You squeeze me
like an elephant's trunk!"
"Dat's 'cause I lubs yo', honey lamb!" went on the dear old colored
woman.
Back to Meadow Brook in the cool of the evening came the Bobbseys and
their friends. Tom and Mabel declared they had never had such a good
time, and as for Freddie and Flossie they were too busy playing with
their toy balloons to say much.
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