"Come and see us at Christmas!" called Bert to Harry.

"I may go down to the beach!" answered Harry while the train brakes
flew off.

"We will expect you Thanksgiving," Mrs. Bobbsey nodded out the window
to Aunt Sarah.

"I'll come if I can," called back the other.

"Good-by! Good-by!"

"Now, let us all watch out for the last look at dear old Meadow
Brook," exclaimed Nan, standing up by the window.

"Let Snoop see!" said Freddie, with his hand on the cover of the
kitten's box.

"Oh, no!" called everybody at once. "If you let that cat out we will
have just as much trouble as we did coming up. Keep him in his box."

"He would like to see too," pouted Freddie. "Snoop liked Meadow
Brook. Didn't you, Snoopy!" putting his nose close to the holes in
the box.

"I suppose by the time we come back from the beach Freddie will have a
regular menagerie," said Bert, with a laugh. "He had a kitten first,
now he has a kitten and a duck, and next he'll have a kitten, a duck,
and a---"