"What, Daddy?" asked Bobby seriously.

"That Twaddles might have taken off his oil-soaked suit," replied
Father Blossom, going to the rescue of the lonely and hungry
little fellow.

Meg and Bobby and Dot looked at each other.

"I never thought of that," confessed Bobby.




CHAPTER VII

BEGINNING THE JOURNEY


"There's Tim Roon! Wave to him, Bobby," cried Meg.

"Doesn't Marion Green look funny before she knows you?" commented
Dot.

The car with Mother and Father Blossom and the four little
Blossoms and their suitcases and rugs and shawls and long and
short coats, had whirled past Marion Green so rapidly that she had
not guessed who the people were until they were almost around the
corner, though she waved to them in answer to their call.

For the time at last had come to start for Apple Tree Island, and