I like rabbits."
"So do I!" declared Freddie.
"And their nose goes sniff-snuff so funny!" laughed Flossie. "Rabbits
eat a lot of cabbage," she said. "If I had something to eat now I would
like it."
"Say, I can get some cookies!" cried Tom. "Wait, I'll go in the house
after some. You wait here!"
"We'll wait!" said Freddie.
Into the house bounded Tom, and to the cook in the kitchen he called:
"Oh, please give me some cookies. There's a stray cat in our yard and
some stray children, and I want to give 'em something to eat, and----"
"My goodness, boy, how you do rattle on!" cried the cook. "What do you
mean about stray cats and stray children?"
CHAPTER XV
"WHERE ARE THEY?"
Freddie and Flossie walked slowly up the yard, away from the empty
rabbit house, and stood at the foot of the back steps up which Tom
Walker had hurried to ask the cook for something to eat for the "stray
children." The little Bobbsey twins had not heard what the cook said to
Tom after he had asked for something to eat. But the cook repeated her
question.
"What do you mean by stray cats and stray children?"
"There are the stray children out in the yard now," answered Tom.
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