"But not very
many. Bert said so."
"I don't believe I'd like to have red eyes," answered his twin sister.
"Everybody'd think I'd been crying."
"They're not red that way," explained Tom. "They just have the color red
in them; just as some people have black eyes, blue eyes, and brown eyes-
-like that."
"Oh! Say, I heard Nan say once that a girl in her room at school had one
black eye and one grey eye. Wasn't that funny?"
"It certainly was," answered Tom. And then he showed the little Bobbsey
twins a number of picture books and a locomotive which went around a
little track.
Freddie and Flossie were having such a good time that they never thought
their father and mother might be worried about them.
But, after a while, Mrs. Walker came home. You can well imagine how
surprised she was when she found the two lost, strayed children in her
house.
"And so they got off one of the sight-seeing autos, did they?" cried
Tom's mother. "Oh, my dears! I'm glad you're here, of course, and glad
you had a good time with Tom. But your mother and father will be much
frightened! I must telephone to the police at once."
"We'll not be arrested, shall we?" asked Freddie anxiously.
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