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The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat by Laura Lee Hope
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trick, but I did."

"Indeed you did!" agreed Dorothy.

"Now come back here, Snap!" ordered Nan. But just then something
happened.

How it was no one knew exactly, but Bert suddenly caught a fish. He
was so surprised at getting a hard bite on his line, that he jerked it
up quickly. Something flashed in the sunlight, and, the next moment, a
little sunfish landed flapping on the deck, right in front of the
sleeping black cat Snoop.

"Flop!" went the fish, and Snoop awakened with a jump. Up to her feet
she leaped like a flash, and then she saw the fish. Snoop was very
fond of fish, and made a spring for the one Bert had caught. But the
fish was wet and slippery, and no sooner had Snoop pounced on it with
her claws than the fish slid across the deck of the houseboat. Snoop
slid after it, just as she often slid across the kitchen oilcloth,
when she sprang for a piece of string that Flossie or Freddie would
pull along to make the cat play.

Right across the deck, after the slippery fish slid Snoop, and, the
next instant, the poor cat had slid right off the deck, and fallen
into the lake with a splash!




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