"I never slept so well in all my life!" exclaimed Mother Bobbsey, when
she was getting ready for breakfast the next morning. "The sweet air
of the lumber camp seems to agree with all of us."
Bert and Nan, as well as Flossie and Freddie, also felt fine, and they
were ready for a day of fun. They had it, too, for there were so many
things to do in the big tract of trees their mother now owned that the
children did not know what to start first.
Of course Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey had business to look after--the
business of taking over the lumber camp, since Mrs. Bobbsey was now
the owner. But she made no changes. She said she wanted Bill Dayton
still to act as foreman, and she wished to keep the same men he had
hired from the first, as he said they were all good workers.
But while their father and mother were in the office of the lumber
camp, looking over books and papers, Bert and Nan and Flossie and
Freddie roamed about. They did not go alone, as that would not have
been safe. Harvey Hallock, the good-natured driver of the wagon, went
with them, and foreman Bill Dayton told him to be especially careful
not to let Flossie and Freddie stray away.
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