“The squirrels have picked up most of them,” said Jim Denton, coming along a little later. “But there’s a chestnut grove not far away, up Pine Brook, and there ought to be plenty left if you don’t wait too long.”
“Oh, Mother! may Nan and I go chestnutting?” asked Bert. “I want to get a lot!”
“Will it be safe for them?” asked Mrs. Bobbsey of the foreman.
“Oh, yes,” answered Jim. “It isn’t more than a mile and the trail is plain. I’ll tell ’em how to go and show ’em the way.”
And so, the next morning, Bert and Nan started off on a chestnut party, little dreaming of the strange things that were to happen to them and the other Bobbsey twins.
CHAPTER IX—SAWMILL FUN
Flossie and Freddie had teased to be allowed to go nutting with Bert and Nan, especially when the smaller Bobbsey twins learned that their brother and sister were to take a lunch and perhaps stay all the rest of the day in the woods.
“Oh, I want to go nutting!” cried Flossie.
“So do I!” wailed Freddie. “An’ I want to eat my dinner under the Christmas trees!”
“We can’t have any fun if they come with us,” objected Bert, in a whisper to his mother.