"Got enough to
eat?"
"I guess so," Bert answered his chum, holding up the boxes and baskets.
"Enough for two picnics I should say!"
"You can eat a lot when you're off in the woods," added Dannie Rugg.
"It's like camping out."
"Here comes Nan!" exclaimed Grace Lavine, a particular chum of the older
Bobbsey girl.
Nan, having hurried in to tell her mother the trucks had arrived, now
hastened down the path, her hair flying in the wind.
"Have you everything? Take good care of Flossie and Freddie! Have a good
time, and don't fall into the water!" Mrs. Bobbsey said, as she waved
good-by to her twins while they clambered up into the truck.
"We will!" they answered.
"Good-by, Mother! Good-by!"
"Good-by, children!"
"Honk! Honk!" tooted the auto horn.
"All aboard!" called Nellie Parks. "All aboard!"
"I want to sit on the end!" declared Freddie, struggling to get in this
position.
"You might fall out going up hill," said Bert. "I'll sit there, Freddie,
and you can sit next me." The little fellow had to be content with this.
With children laughing, children singing, children shouting and children
smiling, with flags flying and the horn tooting, the big auto started
off, having taken aboard the Bobbsey twins; and soon the two trucks were
out of sight around a turn in the road, bound for Pine Grove, on the
outskirts of the town of Lakeport. It was the yearly picnic of one of
the Lakeport Sunday schools.
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