from the room. "But don't talk over any plans until I come back," she
begged.

"We won't," promised her mother.

And while the house is settling into quietness, after the confusion of
the temporary home-coming, and the upsetting of Dinah and Freddie, I
will take just a few moments to tell my new readers something about
the Bobbsey Twins as they have been written about in the other books
of this series.

There were two sets of twins, and that may seem strange until I tell
you that Bert and Nan, aged about nine, formed one set, and Flossie
and Freddie, aged four years younger, made up the second set. Bert and
Nan were tall and slim, with dark hair and eyes, while Flossie and
Freddie were fat and short, with light hair and blue eyes, making a
very different appearance from the older twins.

Besides the two sets of Bobbsey twins, there was Mr. Richard Bobbsey,
and his wife Mary. They lived in an Eastern city called Lakeport, on
Lake Metoka, where Mr. Bobbsey had a large lumber business.

I might say that Dinah Johnson, and her husband Sam, also formed part
of the Bobbsey household, for without Dinah to cook, and without Sam
to do everything around the house, from watering the grass to putting
out the ashes, I do not know how Mrs. Bobbsey would have gotten
along. And then, of course, there was Snoop, the black cat, and Snap,
the nice dog, who had once been in a circus, and could do many tricks.

So much for the Bobbsey family. As for what they did, if you will read