The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island

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
* * * * *
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
* * * * *
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