put her toy down on the deck a moment.

"Good-bye! Good-bye!" called Nan to Grace Lavine, and some others of
her girl friends, who had come down to the dock to see them off.
"Good-bye!"

"Good-bye!" echoed the girls, waving their hands.

"Come on!" called Bert to Harry, as he started for the lower cabin.

"What are you going to do?" asked the boy from the country.

"Let's get out our fishing poles. Maybe we can catch something for
dinner."

"That's right!" agreed Harry.

Slowly the Bluebird moved out into the lake, for the gasoline engine
was working. The houseboat trip of the Bobbsey twins had begun, and
many things were to happen before it was to end.




CHAPTER IX

SNOOP AND SNAP


Nan and Dorothy, after waving good-bye to the girl friends on the