The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island

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The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island, by

Laura Lee Hope
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Title: The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island
Author: Laura Lee Hope

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THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND
by
LAURA LEE HOPE
Author of "The Bobbsey Twins," "The Bunny Brown Series," "The Outdoor Girls Series," Etc.
Illustrated

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Made in the United States of America
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BOOKS BY LAURA LEE HOPE
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
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Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York. Copyright, 1917, by Grosset & Dunlap.

THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND
[Illustration: FREDDIE CAUGHT THE FIRST FISH.
The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island. Frontispiece--(Page 123)]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE GYPSIES 1 II. A SURPRISE 13 III. WORRIED TWINS 26 IV. THE GOAT 36 V. A BUMPY RIDE 47 VI. JOLLY NEWS 59 VII. "WHERE IS SNAP?" 68 VIII. OFF TO CAMP 78 IX. A NIGHT SCARE 90 X. THE "GO-AROUND" BUGS 103 XI. THE BLUEBERRY BOY 112 XII. THE DRIFTING BOAT 126 XIII. IN THE CAVE 137 XIV. HELEN'S VISIT 147 XV. THE DOLL'S DRESS 161 XVI. SNOOP IS MISSING 170 XVII. FREDDIE IS CAUGHT 179 XVIII. FLOSSIE IS TANGLED 191 XIX. THE TWINS FALL DOWN 202 XX. THE QUEER NOISE 213 XXI. "HERE COMES SNAP!" 221 XXII. HAPPY DAYS 231

THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON BLUEBERRY ISLAND
CHAPTER I
THE GYPSIES
"Oh, dear! I wish we weren't going home!"
"So do I! Can't we stay out a little while longer?"
"Why, Flossie and Freddie Bobbsey!" cried Nan, the older sister of the two small twins who had spoken. "A few minutes ago you were in a hurry to get home."
"Yes; they said they were so hungry they couldn't wait to see what Dinah was going to have for supper," said Bert Bobbsey. "How about that, Freddie?"
"Well, I'm hungry yet," said the little boy, who was sitting beside his sister Flossie in a boat that was being rowed over the blue waters of Lake Metoka. "I am hungry, and I want some of Dinah's pie, but I'd like to stay out longer."
"So would I," added Flossie. "It's so nice on the lake, and maybe to-morrow it will rain."
"Well, what if it does?" asked Nan. "You didn't expect to come out on the lake again to-morrow, did you?"
"Maybe," answered Flossie, as she smoothed out the dress of a doll she was holding in her lap.
"I'd like to come out on the lake and have a picnic every day," said Freddie, leaning over the edge of the boat to see if a small ship, to which he had fastened a string, was being pulled safely along.
"Don't do that!" cried Nan quickly. "Do you want to fall in?"
"No," answered Freddie slowly, as though he had been thinking that perhaps a wetting in the lake might not be so bad after all. "No, I don't want to fall in now, 'cause whenever I go in swimming I get terrible hungry, and I don't want to be any hungrier than I am now."
"Oh, so that's the only reason, is it?" asked Bert with a laugh. "Well, just keep inside the boat until we get on shore, and then you can fall out if you want to."
"How am I going to fall out when the boat's on shore?" asked Freddie. "Boats can't go on land anyhow, Bert Bobbsey!"
"That