Flossie and Freddie, you are wet, so you might as well get undressed
and go to bed. It is nearly time, anyhow, and you have had quite a day
of it. Off to bed!"

Off to bed the twins went.

Dinah wiped up the kitchen, and, as she did so, she murmured over and
over again: "It shuah did go off suddint laik! It shuah did!"

Flossie and Freddie, little the worse for their wetting, went off to
school next day, with Nan and Bert. The two sets of twins talked of
many things on their way to their classes, but, most of all, they
talked of the coming trip on the houseboat, and of the accident to the
fire engine the night before.

"I do hope Cousin Dorothy can come with us," said Nan, as she left
Bert to walk along with Nellie Parks.

"And I hope Harry can go," said Bert. "Better hurry along, Freddie,"
he called to his little brother. "There goes your bell, and yours,
too, Flossie."

The two little tots turned into the gate of the school that led to the
yard where the smallest pupils formed in line.

"Well, even if Harry and Dorothy can't go, I'll take my fire engine,"
said Freddie.

"And we'll take Snoop and Snap, so we won't be lonesome," suggested
Flossie. "Oh, won't it be fun, Freddie!"