Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. A short time before, the Bobbsey twins had returned from the city of New York where they had spent a part of the winter. Now it was Spring and would soon be summer, and, as the day was a fine. Warm one, they had gone on a little picnic, taking their lunch with them and pretending to camp on one of the many is lands in the lake. Now they were on their way home.