"I think so," replied her husband. "I just stopped at the office, and
everything there is going along nicely. So I think we'll go to Meadow
Brook, in the country, for the rest of the summer."

"Hurray! Hurrah! Oh, how nice!" cried the children.

"Dinah, I think I'll have another cup of tea," went on Mr. Bobbsey, as
the colored cook waddled in. "Make it cold, this time--with ice in it.
I am very warm."

"Yais-sah," said Dinah, taking his cup.

Then followed a confusion of talk, the two sets of twins doing the
most. They were joyfully excited at the idea of going to Meadow Brook
farm.

"I'm going to turn somersaults in the grass--just like this," cried
Freddie, rolling over and over on the floor. He rolled toward the door
that led from the dining-room to the kitchen, and, just as he reached
it, Dinah came in with Mr. Bobbsey's cup of iced tea.

Before Freddie could stop himself, and before fat Dinah could get out
of the way, the little Bobbsey chap had rolled right into the cook,
and down she went in a heap on the floor, the cup and saucer crashing
into dozens of pieces, and the tea spilling all over.




CHAPTER II