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"Oh, goodie! Goodie!" shrieked Nan, jumping up and down.
"Hurray!" cried Bert. "Now I'm going to be a cowboy. Whoop!"
"Mercy me!" exclaimed their mother, covering her ears with her hands
as Bert and Nan shouted loudly.
"Come on, Flossie!" called Freddie to his small sister. "Let's go and
ask Dinah for more cookies."
That was Freddie's way of celebrating the good news.
Then came happy days.
Mr. Bobbsey, once he had made up his mind that the children were to go
out West with him and his wife, went to the school and saw the
teachers who had charge of Bert and Nan. He found that the older
Bobbsey twins were so well along in their studies that it would not
hold them back in the fall to stop now. So they were given permission
to leave school before the regular time.
There was no trouble at all about Flossie and Freddie. They had simple
lessons, and they could easily be taught at home to make up for the
time they would lose.
It was arranged that Dinah and Sam should stay at home in the Bobbsey
house to look after it during the summer, while Mr.
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