“What?”
“We can take Mrs. Bimby that bear robe. It’ll keep her warm, ’cause it’s so nice and soft!”
“So ’tis!” agreed Freddie. “We’ll take it, and something to eat, too.”
“We’ll not have to do that, Daddy and the other men are going to take her something to eat.”
“I meant something to eat for us,” Freddie said. “We ought to take a lunch with us, ’cause maybe we’ll get hungry in the woods.”
The younger Bobbsey twins had a feeling that if they were seen packing up a lunch for themselves, putting on their boots and outdoor garments, and taking the bear skin, they would be stopped. They felt sure they would not be allowed to go in search of Nan and Bert. And they were probably right.
So, as they had done more than once before, they said nothing of their plans, but went about them secretly and quietly. While their mother and Mrs. Baxter were packing two large baskets with food for Old Jim’s wife, and while Daddy Bobbsey was talking to the men about the coming trip through the snow-filled woods, Flossie and Freddie took their boots, coats, caps and mittens to the back door of the log cabin.
“We can slip out and put ’em on there when nobody is looking,” said Freddie.
“We’ve got to take the bear skin out, too,” Flossie remarked.
But when they tried to bundle the skin of the bear up so they could carry it, they found it so heavy and slippery to lift that they had to give it up.