The Bobbsey Twins' Adventure in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

Author:Laura Lee Hope [Hope, Laura Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Childrens, Mystery
ISBN: 9780448437538
Goodreads: 856113
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1907-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Bert quickly freed the man

As Bert was running under a particularly tall tree he heard someone call, “Here I am! Help me get down!”

Bert peered up through the leafy branches. There, almost at the top of the tree, was the stunt man. The lines of his parachute seemed to be caught and he could not move.

“I’ll be right there!” Bert assured him. Nimbly he began to climb the tree.

“Just unfasten these lines from my belt,” the man directed when Bert got to him. “I can’t reach them.”

Bert quickly freed the man. “Oh thank you,” he said. The two climbed down the tree. The other children waited at the foot of the tree, starry-eyed.

The parachutist jumped to the ground. “Well,” he said, laughing, “I guess this young man here wins the prize. He even climbed a tree to rescue me!”

As they all waited expectantly, the stunt man pulled an envelope from his pocket and handed it to Bert.

“What is it?” Freddie asked impatiently.

“Open it quick!” Flossie urged.

Bert tore open the envelope and pulled out a sheet of paper. A smile came over his face. “It’s an order to buy something at the Meadowbrook Sports Shop,” he explained. “I can get anything I want there as a gift.”

“Say, that’s great,” Harry said. “What’ll you pick out?”

“I know!” Flossie spoke up. “You can buy a bed for Snoop!”

“But we already made Snoop a bed,” Bert protested, “out of an old carton.”

“Snoop doesn’t like that one,” Freddie put in. “He won’t sleep in it.”

Bert promised to think over the matter, then asked the stunt man about his parachute.

“I’d certainly appreciate it if you boys would help me get it out of the tree,” the parachutist said.

The four older boys set to work untangling the parachute lines from the tree top and finally were able to lift the huge nylon bag free. They carried it to the meadow, laid it on the grass, and folded the cloth as best they could.

“Very good job,” its owner said.

The grownups had strolled over to examine the parachute. Now Uncle Daniel offered to drive the stunt man into town.

“I’d appreciate that,” he said.

Freddie looked down the road a long time after the man had gone. Then he said to his mother and Flossie, “Maybe when I grow up, I’ll be a chute man and float through the air.”

Mrs. Bobbsey smiled. “Right now, if you want to grow up, you’ll eat some supper and go to bed!”

Around midnight, when everyone at the farm was asleep, Nan awakened. Someone was playing the piano again, exactly the way Flossie had described it—just scales !

“It can’t be,” Nan told herself. “I must be dreaming.”

She lay still and listened. There it came again. Someone was downstairs and he or she was playing the piano! And fancier now!

The notes came in little runs, then there would be a discordant thump.

“I’m going to get Uncle Daniel and see who it is,” Nan decided.

She slipped on her robe and slippers and knocked at his door. When he came out, she told him in whispers about the strange music.

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