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  Speaker 1: Please visit LibriVox dot org. The Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank
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  Speaker 1: by Laura Lee Hope Home again. Poor Flossy Bobbsey seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be covered from head to foot with the dough
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  Speaker 1: she had mixed to make peach tarts, as she had
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  Speaker 1: seen Nan doing. Of course, there may have been a
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  Speaker 1: few spots on the little girl that were not covered
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  Speaker 1: with the mixture of flour and water, but there were
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  Speaker 1: not many. Flossy had made her dough very sloppy, as
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  Speaker 1: Bert said, and it splattered all about. There was much
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  Speaker 1: on the floor, some on the chair, but most of
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  Speaker 1: it was on Flossy. Oh, you poor child, What in
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  Speaker 1: the world were you trying to do? Cried Nan as
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  Speaker 1: she ran across the room to pick up her little sister.
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  Speaker 1: I was now, I was making tarts, sobbed FLOSSI did
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  Speaker 1: I break Missus Watson's mixing bowl, Nan, for her eyes
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  Speaker 1: were so filled with flour that she could not see
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  Speaker 1: at them. Now, No, the bowl isn't broken, answered Nan kindly,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll help you clean up FLOSSI. Oh but it
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  Speaker 1: is a terrible miss she sighed. Missus Bobbsey and Missus Watson,
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  Speaker 1: hearing the crash of Flossi's fall had run to the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: They could tell at once what had happened, but Flossie
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  Speaker 1: thought it best to explain. I was making peached tarts,
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  Speaker 1: she said, but I didn't finish. Never mind, soothed her mother,
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  Speaker 1: For Fossy had been punished enough. Missus Bobbsey thought you
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  Speaker 1: may have some of NaN's tarts, and when Flossi had
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  Speaker 1: been washed and a clean dress put on her, she
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  Speaker 1: was given one of the first of the tarts from
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  Speaker 1: the oven. For NaN's baking turned out wonderfully. Well, you're
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  Speaker 1: getting to be quite a cook, complimented mister Watson at
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  Speaker 1: the table a little later, when NaN's tarts were served.
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  Speaker 1: You can put the story of Flossy in her tarts
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  Speaker 1: in your composition, Nan suggested Bert. Yes, I guess I
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  Speaker 1: Will's answer. I hope some more things happen around here
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  Speaker 1: before we go home, Nan went on. The more things
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  Speaker 1: I have in my composition, the better it will be,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe I can win the prize. I'd give someone
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  Speaker 1: a good prize if he or she could find my
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  Speaker 1: lost glasses, sighed Missus Martin. She was still without her spectacles,
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  Speaker 1: though she gave up a large part of each day
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  Speaker 1: to looking for them. I guess you'll have to wait
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  Speaker 1: until your doctor gets back and then have em write
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  Speaker 1: you a prescription for a new pair, suggested mister Watson
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  Speaker 1: as he got on the floor to play horse with
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  Speaker 1: baby Jenny. I think someone must have taken them, either
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  Speaker 1: by mistake or on purpose, said the old lady. I
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  Speaker 1: remember perfectly well that I had them the day the
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  Speaker 1: cattle ran away. Then I laid them down, and someone
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  Speaker 1: must have come in and picked them up. Who would
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  Speaker 1: do such a thing as that, asked missus Bobbsey. Well,
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  Speaker 1: some of those cattlemen might, Missus Martin answered, those were rough,
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  Speaker 1: and they might take a notion to my glasses. The
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  Speaker 1: frames were of solid gold. But all the men who
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  Speaker 1: drove the cattle were young fellows, said mister Watson. None
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  Speaker 1: of them wore glasses. Well, I don't know, sighed missus
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  Speaker 1: Watson's cousin. I wish I had my glasses, That's all
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  Speaker 1: I can say. The happy days at Cloverbank were drawing
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  Speaker 1: to a close. Mister Bobbsey planned to take his family
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  Speaker 1: back home in about a week so the children could
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  Speaker 1: resume their studies at school. But first time us get
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  Speaker 1: some more things to put in my composition, Nan said,
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  Speaker 1: are you going to work on yours? Bert, She asked
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  Speaker 1: her brother as she saw him wandering about the house
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  Speaker 1: as if searching for something. Are you looking for a
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  Speaker 1: pencil and paper? I'm looking for my pole, he said.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going fishing with Sam. I have lots of time
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  Speaker 1: to write a composition after I get back to Lakeport. Oh. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: agreed Nan. I'm going to write my composition after I
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  Speaker 1: get home, but I want some things to happen here
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  Speaker 1: so I'll have plenty of incidents, as SkELL calls them.
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  Speaker 1: In the days that followed, the Bopsey twins had much fun.
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  Speaker 1: They went on picnics to the woods and to Buttermilk Glen,
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  Speaker 1: but Bert kept away from the pirate's cave. The children
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  Speaker 1: played in the barns. They helped feed the chickens and
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  Speaker 1: gathered the eggs. Old Speck came off her nest beneath
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  Speaker 1: the barn with a brood of ten little chickens and
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  Speaker 1: was put in a coop near the house. Flossy and
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  Speaker 1: Freddy devoted themselves to this little family, feeding them and
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  Speaker 1: giving them water every day. When another crop of hay
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  Speaker 1: was gathered, The twins were allowed to ride on top
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  Speaker 1: of the loads as they were brought in from the field,
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  Speaker 1: though Nan did not again try to operate the trolley fork.
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  Speaker 1: Twice Bert and Sam went fishing, and once they took Freddy, who,
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  Speaker 1: to his great delight, caught a good sized chub, But
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  Speaker 1: it dropped off the hook when close to the bank
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  Speaker 1: and flapped its way back toward the creek. I'll get you,
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  Speaker 1: I'll get you, shouted the little fellow, and he threw
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  Speaker 1: himself on the fish so vigorously that he slipped and
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  Speaker 1: went into the water himself, but Bert and Sam soon
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  Speaker 1: pulled him out. A late crop of peaches was being
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  Speaker 1: picked when it was time for the Bobbsey family to
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  Speaker 1: return home. Mister Bobbsey had gone to Lakeport to attend
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  Speaker 1: some business, but was coming back to drive his family
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  Speaker 1: home in the automobile. Only one day more, sighed Nan,
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  Speaker 1: one afternoon when word came in a letter that mister
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  Speaker 1: Bobbsey would arrive the following morning, and that the twins
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  Speaker 1: must be ready to leave. Oh it's so wonderful here.
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  Speaker 1: I could stay forever, so could I, Bert said. But
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  Speaker 1: at the same time, I'll be glad to get back
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  Speaker 1: home and see the fellows. We're going to have a
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  Speaker 1: football eleven this season, and maybe I'll be captain, and
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  Speaker 1: I suppose I'll be glad to get home after I arrive,
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  Speaker 1: said Nan. Anyhow, I want to see if I can
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  Speaker 1: win the composition prize, and that reminds me. I want
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  Speaker 1: to gather some yellow flowers I saw the other day
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  Speaker 1: and didn't know what they were. Miss Scale said we
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  Speaker 1: should put in something about the tree and the flowers
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  Speaker 1: we saw. So Nan, taking Flossy and Freddy with her,
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  Speaker 1: went to gather the blossoms so she could find out
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  Speaker 1: their name. While Bert went on a last fishing trip
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  Speaker 1: with Sam. Bert came back from his trip with a
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  Speaker 1: fine string of fish, which were cooked for the evening meal.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Watson said he would miss this treat as he
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  Speaker 1: was so busy he seldom had time to go to
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  Speaker 1: the creek with hook and line. Early the next morning,
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  Speaker 1: all was in readiness for the trip back to Lakeport.
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  Speaker 1: The Bobsey twins, brown as berries from their life out
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  Speaker 1: of doors, once again put on their good clothes. Valices
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  Speaker 1: were packed and the otto was brought to the door.
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  Speaker 1: Have you got room for these? Asked mister Watson, pointing
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  Speaker 1: to three baskets of choice peaches on the porch. I
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  Speaker 1: sorted these out especially for you. They'll stand the journey
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  Speaker 1: if you don't jounce them too much over the rough roads.
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  Speaker 1: And when you get them home, Nan, you can make
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  Speaker 1: some more tarts. Indeed, we'll make room for the peaches,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Bobbsey, and very glad we are to have them.
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  Speaker 1: If we could take some bees home, we could have
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  Speaker 1: some honey too, remarked Freddy. They all laughed at this,
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  Speaker 1: and the farmer said, I'm afraid it would be dangerous
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  Speaker 1: to carry bees, but in the fall, I'll send you
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  Speaker 1: some honey. Well, goodbye, folks, called Zeke. I've got to
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  Speaker 1: go back to the peach orchard. We're getting in the
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  Speaker 1: last load now and I don't want anything to happen
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  Speaker 1: to it. The children and their parents said farewell to
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  Speaker 1: the kind hired man, and missus Martin called after him.
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  Speaker 1: If you find my lost glasses anywhere, Zeke, bring them
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  Speaker 1: back with you. I will, he promised, though, of course,
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  Speaker 1: as she lost them around the house, he would hardly
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  Speaker 1: find them in the orchard. Goodbye, goodbye, bye was called
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. Baby Jenny waving her little hand
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  Speaker 1: to the travelers. Then with a jolly tooting of the
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  Speaker 1: auto horn, the Bobseys began their homeward journey. There was
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  Speaker 1: no delay and no such experiences as had befallen them
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  Speaker 1: on their trip to Cloverbank, although there was one detour
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  Speaker 1: that made for a short time a little rough going,
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  Speaker 1: and that evening they reached their home in Lakeport. Dinah
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  Speaker 1: and Sam were at the house waiting to greet them.
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  Speaker 1: How's all my honey, lambs, asked the fat cook as
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  Speaker 1: she took some of the baggage Missus Bobbsey handed out.
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  Speaker 1: We're all well, thank you, Dinah, said mister Bobbsey. Did
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  Speaker 1: you and Sam have a good vacationes fine? Answered Sam?
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  Speaker 1: A show did, Miss de Chillians murmured Dinah, what all'm diss?
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  Speaker 1: She asked as she saw the baskets in the car.
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  Speaker 1: Those are some peaches mister Watson gave us, said Missus Bobbsey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna make peached tarts. Added Nan, I think those
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  Speaker 1: peaches had better be sorted, observed mister Bobbsey. We went
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  Speaker 1: over a bit of rough road and making that detour,
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  Speaker 1: and some fruit may be bruised. That's right, agreed his wife.
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  Speaker 1: And as mister Watson told us, a few few bruised
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  Speaker 1: peaches in a basket may spoil the whole lot, wol
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  Speaker 1: turned them out on the table and sort them. This
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  Speaker 1: work was begun as soon as the bobbseys had rested
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  Speaker 1: a little while. As the last peaches from one of
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  Speaker 1: the baskets rolled out on the table, Nan, looking in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the container, uttered a cry, darted out
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  Speaker 1: her hand and said, look, I've found missus Martin's glasses.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Martin's glasses, exclaimed her mother. Where were they in
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of that basket covered with the peaches, said Nan? Look.
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  Speaker 1: She held out the spectacle case, which when it was opened,
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  Speaker 1: proved to contain the old lady's glasses, not in the
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  Speaker 1: least harmed. How did they get there, asked Bert. No
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  Speaker 1: one knew, of course, but it was thought that the
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  Speaker 1: empty peach basket must have been on the porch at
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  Speaker 1: the time of the cattle scare. Missus Martin must either
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  Speaker 1: have dropped or, in her excitement, have put the glasses
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  Speaker 1: in the basket. Later it was set out in the shed,
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  Speaker 1: no one looking to see if it contained anything. The
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  Speaker 1: glasses must have remained in the basket all the while,
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  Speaker 1: and even when the peaches were put in to be
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  Speaker 1: given to mister Bobbsey, no one saw the spectacle case.
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  Speaker 1: The case was about the color of the basket, and
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  Speaker 1: of course a spectacle cases not large. But here they
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  Speaker 1: are safe. And how glad Missus Martin will be, said
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  Speaker 1: Missus Bobbsey. I'll mail them right back to her. This
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  Speaker 1: was done, and a grateful letter of thanks came in reply.
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  Speaker 1: A few days later, Baby Jenny misses the children, Missus
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  Speaker 1: Watson had added in a PostScript to her cousin's missive
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  Speaker 1: and we miss her, said Nan, but I've got something
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  Speaker 1: more to put in my composition. I'm going to write
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  Speaker 1: about the lost glasses and how they were found in
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  Speaker 1: the peaches. School opened about a week later, and after
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  Speaker 1: the first few sessions, Miss SkELL brought up the subject
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  Speaker 1: of the vacation compositions. She gave the children three days
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  Speaker 1: in which to write and hand in their essays, and
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  Speaker 1: Nan worked hard. Bert also wrote one, but he spent
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  Speaker 1: so little time over it that his mother said he
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  Speaker 1: would not stand much chance of winning the prize. At last,
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  Speaker 1: the day came when the decision was to be made
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  Speaker 1: There were some anxious hearts among the boys and girls
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  Speaker 1: in Miss Skell's class as the teacher faced them, ready
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  Speaker 1: to tell who had won the prize. Most of you
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  Speaker 1: did very well, said their instructor, much better than I expected.
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  Speaker 1: There were some excellent compositions handed in and some very
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  Speaker 1: poor and short ones. As she said this, she seemed
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  Speaker 1: to look at Bert Bobbsey. But the best of all
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  Speaker 1: was Nan. Bobbsey's, went on Miss SkELL, So I award
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  Speaker 1: her the prize, and I am going to ask her
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  Speaker 1: to come up here and read her composition to you.
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  Speaker 1: I think you will all enjoy it. The name of
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  Speaker 1: it is a vacation in the country. Come Nan, Nan
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  Speaker 1: blushed but proud and happy. She read her story, and
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  Speaker 1: the boys and girls all said it was a most
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  Speaker 1: interesting Nan told in an entertaining way about many of
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  Speaker 1: the incidents that had taken place at Cloverbank and on
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  Speaker 1: the way there and back, just as they have been
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  Speaker 1: told to you here. Now, what books do you want
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  Speaker 1: for a prize? Asked Miss SkELL, when Nan had finished.
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  Speaker 1: A set of nice story books for girls, If you please,
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  Speaker 1: was the answer, and that is what Nan received A
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  Speaker 1: little later. She still has those books. And thinks them
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  Speaker 1: the best in her little library. Well, we certainly had
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  Speaker 1: fun at Cloverbank, said Bert to his brother and sisters
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon, on their way home from school, Nan, hurrying
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  Speaker 1: to tell the good news about winning the prize. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of fun, she agreed. Wasn't it funny when Freddie and
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  Speaker 1: I saw the bear that turned into a calf? Laughed FLOSSI.
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  Speaker 1: And wasn't it fun that day when we played outdoors
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  Speaker 1: in the rain, asked Freddie. I wonder if we'll ever
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  Speaker 1: have fun like that again? Oh? I guess, so, said Bert.
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  Speaker 1: Whether the Bobbsey Twins did or not remains to be
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  Speaker 1: seen the end end of chapter twenty two. End of
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  Speaker 1: The Bobbsey Twins at Clover Bank by Laura Lee Hope