"It will probably be a month before we can get a new boiler, and until
then there will be no more school," he said. "The children will have
another vacation."
"A vacation so near Christmas," murmured Mrs. Bobbsey. "I wonder what I
can do with my twins?"
Just then the telephone rang, and Mrs. Bobbsey listened. It was Mr.
Bobbsey telephoning. He had heard of some accident at the school, and he
called up his house, from the lumberyard, to make sure his little fat
fairy and fireman, as well as Nan and Bert, were all right.
"Yes, they're home safe," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "But there will be no
school for a month."
"Good!" exclaimed Daddy Bobbsey. "That will just suit me and the
children, too. I'll be home in a little while, and I have some wonderful
news for them!"
"Oh, I wonder what it can be!" exclaimed Nan, when her mother told her
what Daddy Bobbsey had said.
CHAPTER VII
ON A TRIP
The Bobbsey twins could hardly wait for their daddy to come home after
their mother had told them what he said over the telephone.
"Tell me again, Mother, just what he told you!" begged Nan.
"Well, he said he was just as glad as you children were, that there was
to be no more school for a month," answered Mrs.
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