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The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West

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But, though he searched, he could not find them.

"And I might never have found you if I hadn't been in the train wreck
and met the Bobbsey twins," said Mr. Hickson. "Coming to Lakeport was
the best thing I ever did."

"How's everything back in Lakeport?" asked Bert of Mr. Hickson, after
the first greetings between father and sons were over.

"Oh, just about the same," was the answer, "We haven't had any more
train wrecks, thank goodness."

"But we were in one!" exclaimed Freddie.

"So I heard. Well, I'm glad you weren't hurt. But I must begin to
think of getting back to your lumberyard, I guess, Mr. Bobbsey."

"No, you're going to live with us," declared Charley. "Part of the
time you can spend on Three Star ranch with me, and the rest of the
time you can live with Bill in the woods."

"Well, that will suit me all right," said Mr. Hickson, and so it was
arranged. He was to spend the winter on the ranch, where he would help
his son with Mrs. Bobbsey's cattle. Bill Hickson went back to the
lumber camp, and a few days later the Bobbsey twins left for home.

Nan had her wish in getting an Indian doll. One day, just before they
were to leave the ranch, a traveling band of Indians stopped to buy
some cattle. The Indian women had papooses, and some of the Indian
children had queer dolls, made of pieces of wood with clothes of bark
and skin. Mr. Bobbsey bought four of the dolls, one each for Nan and
Flossie, and two for Nan's girl friends at home. For Bert and Freddie
were purchased some bows and arrows and some Indian moccasins, or
slippers, and head-dresses of feathers. So, after all, the Bobbsey
twins really saw some Indians.

"Good-bye, Bobbsey twins!" cried all the cowboys, and they fired their
revolvers in the air. The Bobbseys were seated in the wagon, their
baggage around them, ready to go to the station at Cowdon to take the
train for the return to Lakeport. "Come and see us again!" yelled the
cowboys.

"We will!" shouted Nan and Bert and Flossie and Freddie. They were
driven over the prairie to the railroad station, looking back now and
then to see the shouting, waving cowboys and Charles Hickson and his
father. The Bobbsey twins left happy hearts behind them.

And now, as they are on their homeward way, back to Dinah and Sam,
back to Snoop and Snap, we will take leave of the Bobbsey twins.

THE END

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