to look for any other boys or girls. Well have our own cousins!
Whoop!" and he threw his arms around his mother, while Nan tried to
kiss her. Flossie and Freddie looked on in pleased surprise. The
letters had come just in time. Now there would be a jolly party at
Snow Lodge.




CHAPTER XIII

IN A HARD BLOW


"Are you girls warm enough?" asked Bert Bobbsey, as he and his cousin
Harry started toward the frozen lake one afternoon, the day before
they were all to start for Snow Lodge.

"If we aren't we will never be," answered Dorothy Minturn, who was
Nan's "seashore cousin" as she called the visitor. "I've got on so
many things that it would be easier to roll along instead of walking,"
went on Dorothy with a laugh.

"Well, it's a good thing to be warm, for it will be cold on the ice-
boat; won't it, Bert?" asked Harry.

"That's what it will. There's a good wind blowing, too. It's stronger
than I thought it was," and Bert bent to the blast as he walked along
with the others.