The children saw the place where the jolly, bald-headed cook made the
meals ready for the hungry men. There was a big stove, and on it a pot
of soup was cooking, and when Jed Prenty opened the oven door a most
delicious smell came out.
"What's that?" asked Bert.
"Baked beans," the cook answered. "They're 'most done, too! Want
some?"
"Oh, I do!" cried Freddie. "And I want a fried cake, too!"
"So do I!" echoed Flossie.
"Well, you shall have some," answered the good-natured cook. So he
gave the children a little lunch on one end of the big, long table
where the lumbermen would soon crowd in to dinner.
The Bobbsey twins had no fear of "spoiling their appetites" by eating
thus before their regular lunch was ready. Walking about in the woods
seemed to make them hungry all the while.
As the days passed Mrs. Bobbsey found she would have to stay in
Lumberville longer than she had at first thought. There was much
business to be done in taking over the property her uncle had left
her.
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