文档介绍：THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY
THE BOBBSEY TWINS
IN THE COUNTRY
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
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THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY
CHAPTER I THE INVITATION
"There goes the bell! It's the letter carrier! Let me answer!" Freddie
exclaimed.
"Oh, let me! It's my turn this week!" cried Flossie.
"But I see a blue envelope. That's from Aunt Sarah!" the brother
cried.
Meanwhile both children, Freddie and Flossie, were making all
possible efforts to reach the front door, which Freddie finally did by
jumping over the little divan that stood in the way, it being sweeping
day.
"I beat you," laughed the boy, while his sister stood back,
acknowledging defeat.
"Well, Dinah had everything in the way and anyhow, maybe it was
your turn. Mother is in the sewing room, I guess!" Flossie concluded,
and so the two started in search of the mother, with the e letter
from Aunt Sarah tight in Freddie's chubby fist.
Freddie and Flossie were the younger of the two pairs of twins that
belonged to the Bobbsey family. The little ones were four years old,
both with light curls framing pretty dimpled faces, and both being just
fat enough to be good-natured. The other twins, Nan and Bert, were
eight years old, dark and handsome, and as like as "two peas" the
neighbors used to say. Some people thought it strange there should be
two pairs of twins in one house, but Nan said it was just like four-leaf
clovers, that always grow in little patches by themselves.
This morning the letter from Aunt Sarah, always a e happening,
was especially joyous.
"Do read it out loud," pleaded Flossie, when the blue envelope had
been opened in the sewing room by Mrs. Bobbsey.
"When can we go?" broke in Freddie, at a single hint that the missive
contained an invitation to visit Meadow Brook, the home of Aunt Sarah in
the country.
"Now be patient, children," the mother told them. "I'll read the
invitation in just a minute," and she kept her eyes fastened on the blue
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