the one which the Bobbseys were in.

"Why, yes, if you are very careful," the mother replied, and so the
two little girls started off.

Dinah took Freddie on her lap and told him his favorite story about
"Pickin' cotton in de Souf," and soon the tired little yellow head
fell off in the land of Nod.

Bert and his father were enjoying their magazines, while Mrs. Bobbsey
busied herself with some fancy work, so a half-hour passed without any
more excitement. At the end of that time the girls returned.

"Oh, mother!" exclaimed Nan, "we found Mrs. Manily, the matron of the
Meadow Brook Fresh Air Camp, and she told us Nellie, the little cash
girl, was so run down the doctors think she will have to go to the
seashore. Mother, couldn't we have her down with us awhile?"

"We are only going to visit, you know, daughter, and how can we invite
more company? But where is Mrs. Manily? I would like to talk to her,"
said Mrs. Bobbsey, who was always interested in those who worked to
help the poor.

Nan and Flossie brought their mother into the next car to see the
matron. We told in our book, "The Bobbsey Twins in the Country," how
good a matron this Mrs. Manily was, and how little Nellie, the cash
girl, one of the visitors at the Fresh Air Camp, was taken sick while
there, and had to go to the hospital tent. It was this little girl
that Nan wanted to have enjoy the seashore, and perhaps visit Aunt
Emily.