on the sofa in the bay window!"

Bert climbed out and lost no time in securing the missing box.

"Now we are all ready this time," Mr. Bobbsey declared, while Bill
started on his usual trot down the country road to the depot.

The Bobbseys were leaving the country for the seashore. As told in
our first volume, "The Bobbsey Twins," the little family consisted of
two pairs of twins, Nan and Bert, age eight, dark and handsome, and as
like as two peas, and Flossie and Freddie, age four, as light as the
others were dark, and "just exactly chums," as Flossie always
declared.

The Bobbsey twins lived at Lakeport, where Mr. Richard Bobbsey had
large lumber yards. The mother and father were quite young
themselves, and so enjoyed the good times that came as naturally as
sunshine to the little Bobbseys. Dinah, the colored maid, had been
with the family so long the children at Lakeport called her Dinah
Bobbsey, although her real name was Mrs. Sam Johnston, and her
husband, Sam, was the man of all work about the Bobbsey home.

Our first volume told all about the Lakeport home, and our second
book, "The Bobbsey Twins in the Country," was the story of the
Bobbseys on a visit to Aunt Sarah and Uncle Daniel Bobbsey in their
beautiful country home at Meadow Brook. Here Cousin Harry, a boy
Bert's age, shared all the sports with the family from Lakeport. Now
the Lakeport Bobbseys were leaving Meadow Brook, to spend the month of
August with Uncle William and Aunt Emily Minturn at their seashore
home, called Ocean Cliff, located near the village of Sunset Beach.