Bobbsey. "A lumber tract is what you
children would call big woods. It is a place where trees grow that may
be cut down and made into lumber. All the boards and planks in my
lumberyard were once big trees, growing out West, or up North, or down
South. Now it seems that your mother's uncle owned a big forest of
trees where lumber is cut, as well as owning a cattle ranch."
"And has he left them both to you?" asked Bert.
"Yes," his mother answered. "And the letter from the lawyers who made
Uncle Watson's will tells me that I had better come out to look after
the property that has been left to me."
"Are you going?" Nan wanted to know.
"I think I must," Mrs. Bobbsey replied. "It isn't every day I have so
much property given me. I must go out West to look after it. But daddy
is coming with me, so I'll be all right."
"Hurray!" cried Bert, tossing his hat into the air.
"What are you 'hurrahing' about?" asked his father.
"'Cause I'm going to be a cowboy on mother's ranch!" answered Bert.
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