eg

led up in the windo

s half-past three now. You'll wait till the twins come in, and then t

nd untangled her feet f

do get a chapter all read, Bobby. W

ised the screen and tumbled through the window to the ground. 8 It wasn't

ggled Bobby, tumbling after Meg and closing the screen carefull

iggle

like Mother," she asserted. "Let's hurry, Bo

stone posts at the foot of the la

u said I could g

hair and the reddest cheeks you ever saw. She carried a doll whose blue eyes opened and

ght up with Meg and Bobby. "Wait for 9 Twaddles

town in my life all you children didn't want to

I guess I brushed against the grease can. It won

een grass came a kiddie car

" he beamed. "C

said this letter was to go in the four o'clock mail and we've go

promptly surrendered the kiddie ca

have 10 known them. The whole town knew Meg and Bobby and Dot and Twaddles, and the

d fair hair and blue eyes. Meg's real name was Margaret Alice Blossom, and she was named for

ne scrape after another and out again. They were known as Dot and Twaddles to all their friends, but, of course, they had "real" names like other

Hill into two sections; in fact the Blossoms' 11 rambling, comfortable old house was almost ou

when they reached the po

he other Blossoms, seeing a stalled car, stopped to watch the troubles of the interurba

e curbstone whistled shrilly, but the dog ref

. "See, his foot drag

r brothers said, about animals, and she was never afraid of any four-footed creature.

onductor and the motorman who had joined her. "Oh,

, who had come out of the post-office and heard from the tw

s," he directed. "I

eavy armful for Meg, b

tor, plainly relieved that some one else had tended to t

tor's," announced Me

e," affir

ot were waiting. The twins were used to waiting patiently while

pretty, 13 isn't he? Is he hurt, Meg

aid Meg briefly. "I guess he's in

doctor, and knew the children very well. He didn't seem a bit s

ll me Dot needs gingerbread pills? Or has Twaddles been eating too

watery smile. Tears s

ress on the couch so that the doctor could

crowded around him. The brown eyes of the dog watche