but one day, when the twins, with their father and mother, were on a
railroad train, something happened, and Snoop was lost.

They found Snap, instead. He was a circus dog, and--but there, if you
want to read of Snap, you must do so in the book about him. I shall
tell you this much, though. Snap was a very fine dog, and could do
many tricks, and in the end the Bobbseys kept him for a pet, as well
as getting back their lost cat Snoop.

When school was over for the winter holidays one year, the Bobbseys
went to "Snow Lodge," and in the book of that name I have told you
about a queer mystery the twins helped solve while out amid the snow
and ice.

Now the Bobbseys were back in their fine house in Lakeport, where
Dinah, the fat cook, gave them such good things to eat, and where Sam
Johnson, her husband, kept the lawns so nice and green for the
children to play on.

Just now Freddie Bobbsey would have been very glad, indeed, to be
playing on that same lawn instead of being on his brother's bicycle,
rolling toward the team of lumber horses, who were coming straight for
him.

"Oh, look at Freddie! Look at Freddie!" screamed Flossie, dropping the
two book straps which she had at last found. "Save him, Nan! Bert! Oh,
Freddie!"

"I 'clar t' goodness!" exclaimed fat Dinah in the kitchen. "Dem
chillens am up t' some mo' trouble!"