Bobbsey, "and she sent you her love."
"Did you see Tommy Todd?" Freddie queried.
"Yes; I stayed at his house."
"How is the ice-boat?" asked Bert.
"Well, there has been a thaw, as you know, and there isn't enough ice in
Lake Metoka on which to sail the _Bird_. I guess Tommy'll have to wait
until you get back there, Bert. We'll have more cold weather yet."
"Oh, are we going to leave New York?" asked Nan sorrowfully.
"We can't _live_ here," said her mother. "We've stayed longer now than I
thought we would. Have you much more business to look after?" she asked
her husband.
"It will take about two weeks more, and then I think we'll go back to
Lakeport. But you children can have plenty of good times in two weeks, I
should think."
"Of course we can!" cried Bert. "And when we get back home----"
"Are we going camping?" interrupted Freddie. "Flossie and I want to go
camping in the woods."
"On an island in a lake," added the little girl. "And we can take the
bugs that go around and around and around and--and----"
"And the bugs that go around and around will catch all the mosquitoes that
fly up and down, up and down, and bite us!" laughed Mrs. Bobbsey. "Yes, we
certainly shall have to take the 'go around' bugs to camp with us,
children."
"Do you really think we can go camping?" asked Bert of his father.
"Well, I don't know. We'll see."
The Bobbsey twins, both sets of them, did indeed have many more good times
in New York.
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