"Be awful careful of Snoop and Downy," cautioned Freddie, as Dinah
took up her picket duty. "Look out the boys don't get 'em," with a
wise look at the youngsters, who were spoiling for more sport of some
kind.

"Dis yeah circus won't move 'way from Dinah," she laughed. "When I
goes on de police fo'ce I takes good care ob my beat, and you needn't
be a-worryin', Freddie, de Snoopy kitty cat and de Downy duck will be
heah when you comes back," and she nodded her wooly head in real
earnest.

It was an easy matter to go from one car to the other as they were
vestibuled, so that the Bobbsey family made a tour of the entire
train, the boys with their father even going through the smoker into
the baggage car, and having a chance to see what their own trunk
looked like with a couple of railroad men sitting on it.

"Don't you want a job?" the baggagemaster asked Freddie. "We need a
man about your size to lift trunks off the cars for us."

Of course the man was only joking, but Freddie always felt like a real
man and he answered promptly:

"Nope, I'm goin' to be a fireman. I've put lots of fires out already,
besides gettin' awful hurted on the ropes with 'Frisky.'"

"Frisky, who is he?" inquired the men.

"Why, our cow out in Meadow Brook. Don't you know Frisky?" and
Freddie looked very much surprised that two grown-up people had never