Surely enough, when the twins reached home, there the cousins were to
greet them--Dorothy and Harry, one from the seashore, and the other
from the country.

"Oh, but I'm SO glad to see you!" cried Nan, as she hugged and kissed
Dorothy.

"And I'm SO glad to come," Dorothy answered with a smile. "It was
lovely of you to invite me to go on your boat."

"We'll have a lot of fun," said Bert to Harry.

"That's what we will," replied the boy from the country.

"We're both awful glad to see you!" chimed in Flossie, speaking both
for herself and for Freddie. "But we can't play with the fire engine."

"Not if we put water in," added Freddie.

"What in the world do they mean?" asked Dorothy, wonderingly.

"Oh, I'll have to tell you," laughed Nan, as she explained about the
accident.

The cousins had much to tell the twins, and talk about, and the twins
had as much more to tell, so, for a time, there was a merry sound of
talk and laughter.

Dorothy and Harry had come by different trains, one from the seashore
and the other from the country, but they had reached the Bobbsey house