“Yes. On a little vacation trip,” went on Mr. Bobbsey. “We will go to the country where the old woman can’t find us.”
“Oh, to the country!” cried Nan, in delight.
“To Meadow Brook?” asked Bert.
“No, we can hardly go as far away as Meadow Brook,” said his father. “Though, no doubt, Uncle Daniel would be glad to see us. But I heard to-day of a nice boarding house in a small country town not far away, and we will go there for a vacation trip.”
“Oh, goodie!” cried Flossie.
“Have they got cows?” Freddie demanded.
“I guess so,” his father answered. “So, Mother, you had better get ready to go and take Baby May with you,” he added.
“If they have cows they must have horses,” was Freddie’s comment. “And if they have horses I’m going to go horseback riding.”
“Why must they have horses if they have cows?” Flossie wanted to know.
“Oh, ’cause they always do. When they take the milk to the station they have to carry the cans in a wagon, don’t they? And horses have to pull the wagon, don’t they?”