14 - Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Laura Lee Hope

Caught in a blizzard and swept into unexpected adventures, the Bobbsey Twins face cold weather and warm-hearted lessons at Cedar Camp. Discover hundreds of ad-free audiobooks, soothing sounds for sleep and meditation, and more—unwind and learn at www.adfreebooks.com!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Read by John Brandon. The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp
by Laura Lee Hope snowed in. Having been out in
the cold and storm so long, Jim Bimby seemed to
have become half frozen. He did not appear to understand
what mister Bobbsey asked him. The old logger staggered to

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his seat, helped by some of the men from Cedar Camp,
and looked about him. What's the matter, asked old Jim
in a faint voice. Did something happen? I remember starting
off to get to get something to eat for my
wife and me. Then I fell down tired out. I

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guess I guess you did, exclaimed Tom Case. And if
we hadn't found you, you'd have been done for. We
must get you to shelter. Take him around behind this
big pine tree a minute, suggested Jim Denton. He'll be
out of the wind there and we can give him
a drink of the hot tea. We brought along. Some

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hot tea mixed with milk, had been put in a
thermist bottle and taken with the party to have ready
for Nan and Bert. Should the Bobbsey twins be found. Now,
this hot drink would do for poor old Jim Bimby.
Some of the men managed to light lanterns they carried,
though it was hard work on account of the wind
and snow, and the whole party, including the rescued man,

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went to the side of the big pine tree, which
kept off some of the snow. There I feel better,
said old Jim, as he swallowed the warm drink. And
now can you tell us whether or not you saw
my two children, Nan and Bert. The Bobbsey twins again,
asked their father, anxiously. Old Jim shook his head. No,

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he answered, I didn't see any children. I came straight
from my cabin over the hill trail to go to
the village to get some food. The cupboard is almost
bare at my house. I didn't think it was going
to storm, and I was all taken aback when it did.
I kept on, but I must have lost my way.

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Guess you did, said mister Peterson. And you're not likely
to get back on it in this storm either, What
cried old Jim. You mean to say I can't keep
on to the store and take some food back to
my wife. Not in this storm, said Tom Case. You're
miles from the store now, and more miles from your cabin.

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You'd best come to Cedar Camp with us, and in
the morning, when the storm is over, you can go
on again. Your wife has enough food to last until morning,
hasn't she. Yes, I guess so, answered mister Bimby. But
what has become of burton Nan, asked mister Bobbsey. Now
look here, mister Bobbsey said, Tom Case, don't go to

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Orion about those children. They're all right, burton Nan are small,
and when they saw this storm coming on, they went
to some shelter. You can depend on that they'd no
better than to try to make their way back to camp. Well,
perhaps they would, admitted the father of the missing twins.
And perhaps when we get back to camp we'll find

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them there. Some logger or hutter may have found them
and taken them to our cabin, of course, agreed mister Peterson.
By this time, Old Jim, as he was called to
distinguish him from Jim Denton, the lumber foreman, was feeling
much better. He was still weak, and he leaned on

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the arm of one of the lumbermen as they turned back.
The storm was still fierce and it was now night,
but lanterns gave light enough to see the way through
the forest. Had it not been that the lumber and
Christmas tree men knew their way through the woods, the
party might never have reached Cedar Camp. As it was,

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they lost the trail once and had hard work to
find it again. But finally they plunged through several drifts
of snow that had formed and broke out into the
clearing around the sawmill. Did you find them, cried missus Bobsi,
when her husband came to the cabin, knocking the snow
off his feet. No, he answered, and he tried to

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make his voice as cheerful as possible. We didn't find them,
but they're all right. They were probably taken in by
some hunter or logger. Even as he said this, mister
Bobsi was disappointed that Burton Nan had not been brought
back to camp during his absence, for he had half
hoped he would find them there on his own return. Oh,

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I do hope they're all right, said Missus Bobsey. Of
course they are. Her husband told her they'll be here
in the morning with chestnuts. Asked Flossi, who with Freddy,
had been awakened from an early evening sleep by the
return of their father. Yes, they'll bring chestnuts, replied mister Bobbsey,

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trying to smile, though it was hard work, for he
was really very much worried, as was his wife. However,
they did not let Flossie and Freddy know this, and
as mister Bobbsey ate the warm supper that Missus Baxter
set out for him, he told about the finding of
mister Bimby, who had been taken to the cabin of

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tom Case there to spend the night. Can we see him,
cried Flossie, who did not see any the worse for
having fallen into the water. Maybe he can tell us
a story about a real bear, added Freddie, for he
had been rather disappointed since coming to Cedar camp because
no one could tell him where to find a bear.

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Maybe he can, said his father. You shall see old Jim,
as the boys call him in the morning. Mister and
Missus Bobbsey did not pass a very happy night. They
were much worried about the missing Nan and Bert, and
though he tried to sleep after Flossie and Freddy had
gone to Slumberland, mister Bobbsey found it hard work, so

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did his wife. More than once during the night as
they awakened after fitful naps and heard the wind howling
around the cabin and the snow rattling against the windows.
One or the other would say, oh, I hope Bert
and Nan are all right, and the other would say,
I hope. So morning came at last, but it was

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not such a morning as all in Cedar Camp had
hoped for. They had expected the storm to be over
so that a searching party could again set out to
find Bert and Nan. But instead of the storm being over,
it was even worse than the night before. A regular
blizzard had set in the snow, coming out of the

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north on the wings of a cold wind. Great drifts
were piled high here and there through the camp clearing,
and when Freddie and Flossi looked from the windows they
could hardly see the sawmill. Oh oh, squealed Freddie. Look, FLOSSI,
just look. We're snowed in, cried FLOSSI. Oh, what fun

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we'll have. It's just like snow Lodge, added Freddie, remembering
a time spent there when several adventurous happenings had taken place. Yes,
I'm afraid we're snowed in, said mister Bobbsey with an
anxious look out of the window, But I hope it
will not last long. Well, here come tom Case and

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old Jim. I must see what they want, and he
went to the door to let them in. Meanwhile, the
snow came down steadily, and as FLOSSI had said, that
part of the Bobbsey family at Cedar Camp was fairly
snowed in. As for the other members of the family
Burton Nan, we must now try to find out what

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happened to them. End of Chapter fourteen.