t to be called cat, instead of a kitten, now.

After the first winter's fun, told of in the book that began an account
of the doings of the Bobbseys, the twins and their parents went to the
home of Uncle Daniel Bobbsey, and his wife, Aunt Sarah, in Meadow Brook.

In the book called "The Bobbsey Twins in the Country," I wrote down
many of the things that happened during the summer.

If they had fun going off to the country, taking Snoop with them, of
course, they had many more good times on arriving at the farm. There
was a picnic, jolly times in the woods, a Fourth of July celebration,
and though a midnight scare alarmed them for a time, still they did not
mind that.

But, though the twins liked the country very much, they soon had a
chance to see something of the ocean, and in the third book of the
series, called "The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore," my readers will
find out what happened there.

There was fun on the sand, and more fun in the water, and once the
little ones got lost on an island. A great storm came up, and a ship
was wrecked, and this gave the twins a chance to see the life savers,
those brave men who risk their lives to help others.

Then came closing days at Ocean Cliff, the home of Uncle William and
Aunt Emily Minturn at Sunset Beach. School was soon to open, and Mr.
and Mrs. Bobbsey were anxious to get back to their town home, for
Flossie and Freddie were to start regular lessons now, even though it
was but in the kindergarten class.

So goodbyes were said to the ocean, and though Dorothy Minturn cried a
little when her cousins Nan and Flossie, and Bert and Freddie, had to
leave, still she said she hoped they would come again. And so the
Bobbseys were on their way home in the train when the circus accident
happened that brought them to a stop.

"And so we nearly ran into an elephant, eh?" said Mr. Bobbsey to the
brakeman, who had brought in the news.

"Yes, sir. Our engineer stopped just in time."

"If we had hit him we'd gone off the track," said Freddy.

"No, we wouldn't," declared Flossie, who seemed bound to start a
dispute. Perhaps she was so tired that she was fretful.

"Say, can't you two stop disputing all the while?" asked Bert, in a low
voice. "You make papa and mamma nervous."

"Well, an elephant is big, anyhow," said Freddie.

"So he is, little Fat Fireman," said Nan, "Come and sit with me, and we
can see the men catch the monkeys."

The work of getting the escap