A little later Captain White rowed up with Snoop and Flossie's doll, and the little girl at once said she was going to put a dry dress on the doll, so she wouldn't "take cold."
"Well," said Mr. Bobbsey, when the excitement had died down. "That's over, at any rate. All that over one little fish!"
"That's so—my fish started it all!" said Bert. "I wonder what became of it?" and he looked at his empty hook, dangling from the line of his pole.
"The fish dropped off," said Harry. "I saw it. But it was only a little one. It wouldn't have been any good."
"Poor Snoop!" said Mrs. Bobbsey. "All your trouble for nothing! You didn't get the fish."
"Oh, I'll soon catch some more for her, won't we, Harry?" Bert asked.
"That's what we will," answered the country cousin.
"Now if yo' folks am all done fallin' ovahbo'd I'se ready t' gib yo' all suffin t' eat," said Dinah, coming up from the dining-room.
"And I think we are ready to eat," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "This traveling on the water has given me an appetite."
"I guess it has all of us," spoke Mr. Bobbsey with a laugh, as he noticed the eager, hungry looks on the faces of the children.