| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | The Mysterious Box | [1] |
| II. | Queer Noises | [15] |
| III. | An Invitation | [25] |
| IV. | The Prize Offer | [39] |
| V. | Off for Cloverbank | [51] |
| VI. | The Lonely Cabin | [63] |
| VII. | The Night Camp | [76] |
| VIII. | The Storm | [85] |
| IX. | At Cloverbank | [99] |
| X. | Freddie’s Crash | [112] |
| XI. | Bert Has an Upset | [125] |
| XII. | Flossie’s Bear | [134] |
| XIII. | Nan’s Trolley Ride | [145] |
| XIV. | Bert’s Water Mill | [158] |
| XV. | In the Apple Orchard | [167] |
| XVI. | The Runaways | [176] |
| XVII. | Mrs. Martin’s Glasses | [186] |
| XVIII. | The Queer Cloud | [195] |
| XIX. | Hiving the Bees | [208] |
| XX. | The Pirate’s Cave | [214] |
| XXI. | Flossie’s Tarts | [224] |
| XXII. | Home Again | [234] |
THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT CLOVERBANK
CHAPTER I
THE MYSTERIOUS BOX
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Some one was knocking on the door of the kitchen where Dinah Johnson, the fat, jolly, colored cook of the Bobbsey family was just taking a pie from the oven. Holding the pie carefully, Dinah turned her head toward the door.
Tap! Tap! Tap! sounded again.
“Good lan’ ob massy! Wonder who dat am?” murmured Dinah. “Maybe it am one ob dem woodpecker birds whut fly ’round de garden lookin’ fo’ bugs in de trees. But if Mistah Woodpecker t’inks he’s gwine t’ look at dis pie, he’s mighty much mistook—dat’s all I got to say!”
Dinah waddled over to the table, carrying the pie carefully, and then, as the knocking again sounded on the kitchen door, she walked toward it and opened it.
“Git away from heah, Mistah Woodpecker!” she exclaimed, before she really saw who it was. Then she started back in surprise, for Bert Bobbsey, carrying in his hands something wrapped in paper, slid quickly through the half-opened door and exclaimed: