The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great
City

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Title: The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City
Author: Laura Lee Hope
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[Transcriber's note: An illustration was included in the original text that
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paragraph ending "But they are pretty good skaters for such small
children." The omitted text reads [Illustration: AT SEVEN O'CLOCK
A SUPPER WAS SERVED.--P. 129.]]

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City
BY

LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF "THE BOBBSEY TWINS," "THE BUNNY BROWN
SERIES," "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
[Illustration: THE CHILDREN WERE DELIGHTED WITH THE
STORE CAMP.
_The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City. Frontispiece_--(Page 165)]

=BOOKS BY LAURA LEE HOPE=
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, per volume,
=THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES=
THE BOBBSEY TWINS THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE
COUNTRY THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE THE
BOBBSEY TWINS AT SCHOOL THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT
SNOW LODGE THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON A HOUSEBOAT THE
BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOW BROOK THE BOBBSEY TWINS
AT HOME THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY THE
BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND
=THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES=
BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE BUNNY BROWN AND
HIS SISTER SUE ON GRANDPA'S FARM BUNNY BROWN AND
HIS SISTER SUE PLAYING CIRCUS BUNNY BROWN AND HIS
SISTER SUE AT AUNT LU'S CITY HOME BUNNY BROWN AND
HIS SISTER SUE AT CAMP REST-A-WHILE BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE IN THE BIG WOODS BUNNY BROWN
AND HIS SISTER SUE ON AN AUTO TOUR
=THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES=
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS
AT RAINBOW LAKE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP THE OUTDOOR
GIRLS IN FLORIDA THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT OCEAN VIEW
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND

GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP.
THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE ICE-BOAT 1
II. BUILDING THE "BIRD" 13
III. A RUNAWAY 28
IV. THE OLD WOODCHOPPER 36
V. GLORIOUS NEWS. 46
VI. ON TO NEW YORK 59
VII. ON THE EXPRESS TRAIN 68
VIII. A LONG RIDE 80
IX. IN THE STORE 90
X. LOST UNDERGROUND 104
XI. FREDDIE AND THE TURTLE 116
XII. IN THE THEATRE 127
XIII. THE "RESCUE" OF FREDDIE 137
XIV. THE STORE CAMP 153
XV. SAD NEWS 161

XVI. THE BIG ELEPHANT 170
XVII. CALLED HOME 181
XVIII. A QUEER RIDE 191
XIX. THE GOAT 202
XX. MR. BOBBSEY COMES BACK 214
XXI. UNCLE JACK'S REAL NAME 225
XXII. REUNITED 233

=THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY=

CHAPTER I
THE ICE-BOAT
"Oh, there comes my skate off again! Freddie, have you got any paste
in your pocket?"
"Paste, Flossie! What good would paste be to fasten on your skate?"
"I don't know, but it might do some good. I can't make the strap hold it
on any more," and a plump little girl shook back her flaxen, curling hair,
which had slipped from under her cap and was blowing into her eyes,
sat down on a log near the shore of the frozen lake and looked
sorrowfully at the shining skate which had become loosened from her
shoe.
"Come on, Flossie!" called the small, plump boy, just about the size of
his sister, and with her same kind of light hair and blue eyes. "There go
Bert, Nan and Tommy Todd 'way ahead of us. We'll never catch up to
'em if you sit here. Come on!"

"I can't help sitting here, Freddie Bobbsey! How am I going to skate on
only one skate?" asked the little girl.
"Put on the other, and come along."
"I have put it on, lots of times, but it comes off every time I skate a
little bit. That's why I want some paste. Maybe I could paste the strap
fast around my shoe."
"I don't believe you could, Flossie," and this time the small, plump boy
stopped skating around in a ring--"grinding the bar," as it is called--and
glided toward his sister seated on the log. "Anyhow, I haven't any paste.
What made you think I had?"
"Oh, you