In the book called "The Bobbsey Twins in the Country," I wrote down
many of the things that happened during the summer.

If they had fun going off to the country, taking Snoop with them,
of course, they had many more good times on arriving at the farm.
There was a picnic, jolly times in the woods, a Fourth of July
celebration, and though a midnight scare alarmed them for a time,
still they did not mind that.

But, though the twins liked the country very much, they soon had
a chance to see something of the ocean, and in the third book of
the series, called "The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore," my readers
will find out what happened there.

There was fun on the sand, and more fun in the water, and once
the little ones got lost an an island. A great storm came up, and
a ship was wrecked, and this gave the twins a chance to see the
life savers, those brave men who risk their lives to help others.

Then came closing days at Ocean Cliff, the home of Uncle William
and Aunt Emily Minturn at Sunset Beach. School was soon to open,
and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey were anxious to get back to their town
home, for Flossie and Freddie were to start regular lessons now,
even though it was but in the kindergarten class.

Sa good-byes were said to the ocean, and though Dorothy Minturn cried
a little when her cousins Nan and Flossie, and Bert and Freddie,
had to leave, still she said she hoped they would come again. And
so the Bobbseys were on their way home in the train when the circus