“There’s no game here,” she said. “Guess we’ll have to go without a potpie.”
But Nan suddenly uttered an exclamation.
“Oh, I see one!” she cried. “I see a big rabbit! Two of ’em! Oh, Bert, it’s a shame to shoot the bunnies, but we can’t starve! Get the gun!”
CHAPTER XVI—BERT STARTS OUT
Just about the time that Bert was getting ready to try for a rabbit potpie by firing the gun from the door of Mrs. Bimby’s cabin, in the other and larger cabin at Cedar Camp the smaller Bobbsey twins were having a good time. There was no danger there of starving, for the cupboard was far from being bare.
But of course Mr. and Mrs. Bobbsey were worried because, after their long night of worry, neither Bert nor Nan had come back, and there was no news of them.
“But we’ll surely hear from them to-day,” said Tom Case, as he came over through the storm after breakfast to learn if Mr. Bobbsey had any special plans.
“How’s Old Jim?” asked Mr. Bobbsey, as the head of the sawmill workers came in out of the storm, for it was still snowing.
“Oh, Jim’s all right,” was the answer. “But he’s worrying about his wife not having any food. I came over to say that if the storm lets up a little maybe we’d better try to take something to eat to the old lady. She’s all alone in her cabin.”
Of course neither he nor Old Jim knew that the two older Bobbsey twins were at that very moment with Mrs. Bimby.