OFF TO CAMP
"This is queer," said Bert, when a more careful search about the house and barn failed to find Snap. "If he's run away, it will be about the first time he has done that since we've had him."
"Let's ask at some of the houses down the street," said Nan. "Sometimes the children coax him in to play with them, and he forgets to come home because they make such a fuss over him."
"Here's Snoop, anyhow!" cried Freddie, coming out of the barn with the big black cat in his arms. "He can go to camp with us."
"But we want Snap, too!" added Flossie. "We need a dog to keep the gypsies away."
"There won't be any gypsies on Blueberry Island!" Bert reminded them.
"You can't tell," declared Freddie.
"Maybe there'll be one or two, an' I don't want them to take my doll the way they did Helen's," added Flossie.
"Didn't Helen get her doll back?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, coming out of the house in time to hear what the children were saying.
"No'm, and she feels awful sad," replied Flossie. "And now the gypsies has took Snap."