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21 - Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank by Laura Lee Hope · Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank

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  Speaker 1: And Tyr. Please visit LibriVox dot org. The Bobbsey Twins
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  Speaker 1: at Cloverbank by Laura Lee Hope Flossie's Tarts. Freddie Bobbsey
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  Speaker 1: was a resourceful little lad for his age. It was
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  Speaker 1: not the first time he and Bert had gone exploring together,
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  Speaker 1: nor the first time something had happened. So now, instead
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  Speaker 1: of rushing into the small cave after his brother, as
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  Speaker 1: many boys or girls might have done, Freddie turned to
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  Speaker 1: hurry back to his father and mother. I'll go and
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  Speaker 1: get somebody to help you, Bert, he called. Maybe if
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  Speaker 1: I went in, i'd fall too, cause it looks dark.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get help. Bert did not answer, and this made
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  Speaker 1: Freddy fear lest something serious had happened. But even then
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  Speaker 1: he knew the best thing to do was to bring
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  Speaker 1: help as quickly as possible. Back he hurried to the others,
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  Speaker 1: running all the way. Missus Bobbsey could tell by the
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  Speaker 1: look on her small son's face and by his manner
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  Speaker 1: that something unusual had taken place. Where's Bert, she quickly
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  Speaker 1: asked for she remembered that the two boys had gone
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  Speaker 1: into the deeper part of Buttermilk Glen together. He's in
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  Speaker 1: the Pirate's cave, answered Freddie. Panting for breath, he hollered
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  Speaker 1: something about falling down, and then he didn't holler anymore,
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  Speaker 1: and I came back to tell you instantly. There was
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  Speaker 1: great excitement in the pirate's cave. Is he lost FLOSSI
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  Speaker 1: wanted to know you did right to come back so
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  Speaker 1: quickly and tell us, mister Bobbsey said, do you know
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  Speaker 1: where this cave is? He asked missus Watson. Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: know of a cave. She answered. It isn't a very
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  Speaker 1: large place, nor is it dangerous. I can't understand about
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  Speaker 1: Bert's falling. There are no holes in the place that
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  Speaker 1: I know of, though I haven't been in it for years.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he stumbled over a ledge and fell, striking his head,
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  Speaker 1: suggested mister Bobbsey. As he jumped up and went to
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  Speaker 1: his coat, which was hanging on a tree nearby. He
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  Speaker 1: took some matches from one of the pockets. I'll make
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  Speaker 1: a bark torch to go into the cave and find Bert,
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  Speaker 1: he said to his wife. I didn't bring the flashlight.
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  Speaker 1: Can you show me where the cave is? Freddy, I
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  Speaker 1: can lead you to the cave, said Missus Watson, noticing
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  Speaker 1: that baby Jenny was still peacefully sleeping. Nan, you and
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  Speaker 1: Flossie stay here with her and your mother, and I
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  Speaker 1: will go with your father and Freddy to the cave.
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  Speaker 1: Nan and Flossie would have liked to go too, to
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  Speaker 1: search for Bert, but they said nothing as they watched
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  Speaker 1: the others start. It did not take them long to
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  Speaker 1: reach the place. Missus Watson had often been to the
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  Speaker 1: glen on picnics, and she knew all its windings and turns.
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  Speaker 1: Soon they stood in front of the small cavern, which Bert,
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  Speaker 1: in common with other boys, had named Pirate's Cave. Bert, Bert,
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  Speaker 1: are you all right? His mother called, but still there
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  Speaker 1: was no answer. He didn't speak to me after he
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  Speaker 1: hollered about falling, reported Freddie. He must be in a
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  Speaker 1: faint after falling and hitting his head, suggested mister Bobbsey.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go in with the torch and see. I'm coming too,
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  Speaker 1: insisted Missus Bobbsey, while Missus Watson said she would stay
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  Speaker 1: outside with Freddy. Bert's father pulled off some dry bark, and,
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  Speaker 1: twisting it into a torch, set fire to it. This
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  Speaker 1: gave him and his wife light enough to see, though
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  Speaker 1: rather dimly, as they entered the small cavern. It was
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  Speaker 1: just about high enough to stand upright in, and seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be a cave that had been hollowed out by
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  Speaker 1: a washing of high water in the glen. Holding the
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  Speaker 1: torch before him, mister Bobbsey went inside, followed by his wife.
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  Speaker 1: He had taken only a few steps before he suddenly cried, stop,
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  Speaker 1: don't come any farther. There's a hole here and you
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  Speaker 1: may tumble in. Is Bert there, asked Missus Bobbsey. Her
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  Speaker 1: husband flashed the torch down and as far ahead of
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  Speaker 1: him as he could, and then he said, yes, he's here,
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  Speaker 1: and he seems to be all right too. He's moving.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he was dazed by the blow on his head.
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  Speaker 1: Hold the torch, Mary, and I'll lift him out. This
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  Speaker 1: was done, and a little later Bert, in the arms
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  Speaker 1: of his father, was carried out of the cave, his
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  Speaker 1: mother following with the torch. Is he all right, asked
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  Speaker 1: missus Watson. Bert, getting down out of his father's arms,
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  Speaker 1: answered for himself, sure, I'm all right. What happened anyhow?
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  Speaker 1: You went into the cave, fell and hit your head
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  Speaker 1: so hard that you fainted, his mother told him, while
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  Speaker 1: she parted his hair to look for a possible cut
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  Speaker 1: or gash. Oh, I remember now, Bert said, in a
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  Speaker 1: dazed sort of way, putting his hand to his head.
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  Speaker 1: I felt myself falling, and I yelled to Freddy, so
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't come in and get in the hole. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I hit my head, all right, but it was nothing
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  Speaker 1: worse than this, and aside from a little cut on
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  Speaker 1: his scalp, Bert suffered no injury. A drink of water
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  Speaker 1: and some more of the cool fluid on his head
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  Speaker 1: soon made him feel all right again. It isn't safe
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  Speaker 1: to go into a dark cave without a light unless
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  Speaker 1: you know every step of the way, warned mister Bobbsey
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  Speaker 1: as they went back to where Nan and Flossy had
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  Speaker 1: been left with the baby. But before that was done,
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  Speaker 1: mister Bobbsey explored the ca He found that the recent
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  Speaker 1: rain had washed out a deep hole near the entrance,
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  Speaker 1: and it was this hole into which Bert had unsuspectingly stepped.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else may do the same thing, mister Bobbsey said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll put some tree branches in front of the cave
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  Speaker 1: as a warning. Later we'll make a danger sign to
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  Speaker 1: fasten up over the entrance. They found Nan and her
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  Speaker 1: sister anxiously waiting, and the two girls were relieved to
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  Speaker 1: find out that Bert wasn't hurt much. Baby Jenny had
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  Speaker 1: awakened by this time, and as it was nearly noon,
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  Speaker 1: Missus Bobbsey and Missus Watson decided to set out the
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  Speaker 1: picnic lunch, which was done on a flat stump within
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  Speaker 1: sight and sound of buttermilk falls. Don't eat too much, Bert,
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  Speaker 1: his mother warned him, as the good things from the
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  Speaker 1: basket were ready. Why not, he asked, because after a
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  Speaker 1: blow on the head, you might be made ill if
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  Speaker 1: you ate too heartily. Oh I'm all right, insisted the
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  Speaker 1: lad with a brave little smile. There was head ached somewhat.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what happened. I felt myself going down,
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  Speaker 1: and I yelled, and then I seemed to go to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The remainder of the day was passed pleasantly in the woods. Later,
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  Speaker 1: the other children were allowed to peer into the cave
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  Speaker 1: while their father held a torch that illuminated it. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be a pirate and lived there, said Nan,
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  Speaker 1: with a short of her shoulders as she turned away.
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  Speaker 1: Pirates don't mind the dark, They like it, said Freddie,
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  Speaker 1: as if he knew all about it. The next day
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  Speaker 1: was a busy one, for many peaches had to be
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  Speaker 1: sorted to be taken to the auction market. The children
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  Speaker 1: rode to Hitchville again, for they liked the busy excitement
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  Speaker 1: of the place. It was well that mister Watson got
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  Speaker 1: a good quantity of his fruit over to Hitchville. For
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  Speaker 1: the following day it rained, when it would not have
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  Speaker 1: been wise to transport the peaches. The rainstorm was a
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  Speaker 1: hard one, and for Midsummer the day was raw and cold.
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  Speaker 1: As the Bobbsey twins could not go out, they managed
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  Speaker 1: to have fun in one of the barns. Sam Porter,
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  Speaker 1: who had gone fishing with Bert the day the bees swarmed,
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  Speaker 1: came over and taught the children some new games. He
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  Speaker 1: and Bert decided to give a circus act, as they
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  Speaker 1: called it. They made trapieces of bits of harness and
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  Speaker 1: some old broom handles, and swung by their legs and arms.
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  Speaker 1: Watch me do the giants turn, cried Bert as he
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  Speaker 1: took an especially long swing on the trapeze, But one
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  Speaker 1: of the straps broke, The end of the trapeze bar
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  Speaker 1: slipped down and Bert had a fall. Oh cried the
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  Speaker 1: other children as they saw the boy drop, but Bert
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  Speaker 1: came to no harm, for the trapezes were over big
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  Speaker 1: deep piles of hay, and he fell on one of
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  Speaker 1: these piles. Mister Bobbsey, when he learned what sort of
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  Speaker 1: game the boys were playing, had insisted that the hay
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  Speaker 1: be piled under the trapieces, for he was afraid lest
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  Speaker 1: they break. It's lucky that hay was there, Bert said,
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  Speaker 1: I know now why they put nets under the high
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  Speaker 1: trapieces in the circus. In the afternoon, it had not cleared,
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  Speaker 1: and Nan, getting tired of playing in the barn, went
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  Speaker 1: back to the house. She heard Missus Watson saying to
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  Speaker 1: missus Bobbsey, if I wasn't so busy, i'd make some
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  Speaker 1: peach tarts. There are plenty of soft peaches that ought
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  Speaker 1: to be used. Oh could I make the tarts? Beg Nan.
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  Speaker 1: I know how to make biscuits, and I guess I
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  Speaker 1: could make tarts. I'll show you how, offered her mother,
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  Speaker 1: after Missus Watson had said Nan might use the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to make some too, put in flossy. No, dear,
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  Speaker 1: you are too little, Nan replied, but you can watch me,
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  Speaker 1: and when you get a little older you'll know how
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  Speaker 1: but I want to make some myself, insisted Flossi. However,
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  Speaker 1: they would not let her, so she had to be
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  Speaker 1: content to sit in a chair near the kitchen table
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  Speaker 1: and watch while NaN's mother showed her how to mix
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  Speaker 1: the dough and roll out the crust, cutting it into
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  Speaker 1: little circles, which, when filled with cut up peaches and baked,
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  Speaker 1: would be tarts. But when Nan had a batch of
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  Speaker 1: the tarts ready to go into the oven, she left
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen a minute. And this was just the chance
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  Speaker 1: she had been waiting for, said the little girl to herself.
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  Speaker 1: I'll show em I can make tarts just as good
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  Speaker 1: as Nan. All the things Nan had used were on
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  Speaker 1: the table, flour, milk, mixing bulls and the like. Flossy
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  Speaker 1: sifted to some flour into a brown bowl, poured in
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  Speaker 1: some milk, added a little salt and lard, and then
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  Speaker 1: began to stir the mixture. But she found that the
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  Speaker 1: table was too high for her to reach in comfort
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  Speaker 1: even while standing on a chair. I'll set the bowl
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  Speaker 1: on the floor, decided FLOSSI. Then I can stir my tarts,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll cut them out like Nan did, and
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  Speaker 1: put in the peaches and bake em. She lifted the
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  Speaker 1: bowl on the table and was climbing down out of
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  Speaker 1: the chair when suddenly she slipped. Just as Nan opened
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  Speaker 1: the door to come back and clean up, she saw
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  Speaker 1: Flossi fall to the floor with a bowl of dough. Crash,
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  Speaker 1: What a sound it was, Oh, cried Nan. Oh gasped Flossy,
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  Speaker 1: And then you should have seen her end of chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty one.