"
"Oh, I want some!" cried Freddie.
"So do I!" echoed Flossie.
"There's enough for all of you," remarked the cook. "Now, then, Mrs.
Bobbsey, you'll have a cup of tea, I know," and he poured out a hot,
steaming cup that smelled very good.
Mr. Bobbsey ate some of the sandwiches and had a cup of tea, and,
after they had taken the edge off their hunger on the doughnuts, the
children also ate some of the bread and meat.
While their father and mother were talking to the assistant foreman
and the cook, who said his name was Jed Prenty, the four Bobbsey twins
wandered outside the log cabin. It stood on the edge of a clearing in
the forest, and not far away there were other log buildings, most of
them larger than the one where the Bobbseys were to live. These other
buildings were where the lumbermen slept and ate, and one was where
Jed Prenty did his cooking. In another building, farther off, the
horses were stabled.
"Let's take a walk in the woods," said Bert to Nan. "I want to see 'em
cut down trees.
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