{"product_id":"2940013966642","title":"The Bobbsey Twins In A Great City","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                             PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I. THE ICE-BOAT                    1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   II. BUILDING THE \"BIRD\"            13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  III. A RUNAWAY                      28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IV. THE OLD WOODCHOPPER            36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    V. GLORIOUS NEWS.                 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VI. ON TO NEW YORK                 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VII. ON THE EXPRESS TRAIN           68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e VIII. A LONG RIDE                    80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   IX. IN THE STORE                   90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    X. LOST UNDERGROUND              104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XI. FREDDIE AND THE TURTLE        116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XII. IN THE THEATRE                127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XIII. THE \"RESCUE\" OF FREDDIE       137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIV. THE STORE CAMP                153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XV. SAD NEWS                      161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVI. THE BIG ELEPHANT              170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVII. CALLED HOME                   181\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. A QUEER RIDE                  191\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIX. THE GOAT                      202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XX. MR. BOBBSEY COMES BACK        214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXI. UNCLE JACK'S REAL NAME        225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XXII. REUNITED                      233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e=THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN A GREAT CITY=\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ICE-BOAT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, there comes my skate off again! Freddie, have you got any paste in\u003cbr\u003eyour pocket?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Paste, Flossie! What good would paste be to fasten on your skate?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don't know, but it might do _some_ good. I can't make the strap hold it\u003cbr\u003eon any more,\" and a plump little girl shook back her flaxen, curling hair,\u003cbr\u003ewhich had slipped from under her cap and was blowing into her eyes, sat\u003cbr\u003edown on a log near the shore of the frozen lake and looked sorrowfully at\u003cbr\u003ethe shining skate which had become loosened from her shoe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Come on, Flossie!\" called the small, plump boy, just about the size of\u003cbr\u003ehis sister, and with her same kind of light hair and blue eyes. \"There go\u003cbr\u003eBert, Nan and Tommy Todd 'way ahead of us. We'll never catch up to 'em if\u003cbr\u003eyou sit here. Come on!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can't help sitting here, Freddie Bobbsey! How am I going to skate on\u003cbr\u003eonly one skate?\" asked the little girl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Put on the other, and come along.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I have put it on, lots of times, but it comes off every time I skate a\u003cbr\u003elittle bit. That's why I want some paste. Maybe I could paste the strap\u003cbr\u003efast around my shoe.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I don't believe you could, Flossie,\" and this time the small, plump boy\u003cbr\u003estopped skating around in a ring--\"grinding the bar,\" as it is called--and\u003cbr\u003eglided toward his sister seated on the log. \"Anyhow, I haven't any paste.\u003cbr\u003eWhat made you think I had?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, you carry so much stuff in your pockets I thought maybe you'd have\u003cbr\u003epaste.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I might if it was summer, Flossie, and I was making kites with Bert. But\u003cbr\u003eI haven't any paste now.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Then have you got a postage stamp?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A postage stamp? Of course not! What good would a postage stamp be to\u003cbr\u003efasten your skate strap?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, a postage stamp has paste on it, hasn't it? Anyhow, it's sticky,\u003cbr\u003e'cause I got some on my tongue once, and I just know if I could only\u003cbr\u003efasten down the end of this skate strap, to keep it from flopping up, and\u003cbr\u003ecoming out of the buckle, I'd be all right. It's the flopping end that\u003cbr\u003ecomes loose.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, pooh! a postage stamp wouldn't be any good!\" cried Freddie. \"If you\u003cbr\u003edid stick it on it wouldn't last more than three strokes. A postage stamp\u003cbr\u003ewouldn't go far at all!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Some postage stamps do!\" exclaimed Flossie. \"Mother got one on a letter\u003cbr\u003ethe other day and it had stuck itself on half-way round the world--she\u003cbr\u003etold me so. And if a stamp sticks half-way around the world I should think\u003cbr\u003eit would stick while I skated down to the end of the lake.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Huh! That's different!\" half grunted Freddie, for, just then, he was\u003cbr\u003estooping over tightening one of his straps. \"Anyhow, I haven't got a\u003cbr\u003estamp.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, maybe you could fix my skate so it wouldn't come off,\" suggested\u003cbr\u003eFlossie. \"I've tried and tried, but I can't, and I don't want to stay here\u003cbr\u003eall alone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why Flossie Bobbsey! I'm with you!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I know, but Nan and Bert are away down at the other end, with Tommy Todd,\u003cbr\u003eand Bert is going to buy hot chocolates. I know he is, 'cause he said so.\u003cbr\u003eI don't want to miss them.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Me neither! Wait and I'll see if I can't fix your skate, Flossie.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreddie was small--he and Flossie were the smaller pair of Bobbsey\u003cbr\u003etwins--but he was a sturdy little chap, and living out of doors, and\u003cbr\u003eplaying games with his older brother Bert had taught Freddie how to do\u003cbr\u003emany things. He put Flossie's skate on her shoe, tightened the strap, and\u003cbr\u003ethen made it still tighter by putting some pieces of wood under the\u003cbr\u003eleather loop.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083397742832,"sku":"2940013966642","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013966642_p0.jpg?v=1763598091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013966642","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}