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
Release Date: February 25, 2005 [EBook #15169]
Language: English
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[Transcriber's note: An illustration was included in the original text that did not belong in the story. It appeared in the first chapter after the 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 carry so much stuff in your pockets I thought maybe you'd have paste."
"I might if it was summer, Flossie, and I was making kites with Bert. But I haven't any paste now."
"Then have you got a postage stamp?"
"A postage stamp? Of course not! What good would a postage stamp be to fasten your skate strap?"
"Well, a postage stamp has paste on it, hasn't it? Anyhow, it's sticky, 'cause I