Nan and Bert looked out at the passing scenery, as did Flossie and Freddie, when they were not taking turns peeking in at Snoop. As for the black cat himself, he had curled up into a little round ball, and was fast asleep. He had become a traveler by this time, for once he had been to Cuba, when the circus lady took him, as I told you in one of the other books. "I wonder how Snap is getting along in the baggage car?" said Bert to Nan, after a bit. "I think I'll go in and see." "Oh, will papa let you?" inquired his sister. "I don't know. I'll ask him." Mr. Bobbsey was a little doubtful about letting Bert pass from one car to another when the train was moving. "But it's a vestibule train, papa," said the boy. "It's like one big car. I can't fall off." "Well, I don't know," said Mr. Bobbsey, slowly. "I'll take him up front, if he wants to see about the dog," said a brakeman who had heard Bert's talk. "Oh, thank you," said Mr. Bobbsey. "Be careful, Bert." But, as it turned out, there was no danger at all. As Bert had said, the cars were joined together with "vestibules," that made the train like one big railway coach. And as it was slowing up to stop at a station, when Bert went forward to the baggage car, he had no trouble at all in walking along with the brake-man. Bert found Snap very glad indeed to see him, and as the train was then at a standstill the boy took the chain off the dog's collar, and let him run about the car a little, for he had to be kept chained fast while the cars were in motion. "I guess you want to run about a bit, eh, Snap?" said Bert. "Bow wow!" barked the dog, and that was the best answer he could make. The man in the baggage car had seen to it that Snap had plenty of water to drink, for the day was very hot. "Better chain him up again, my boy," suggested the baggage man, after a bit. "We'll start pretty soon now." Bert led Snap over to the side of the car, where the collar-chain dangled, but, just then, Snap, looking out of the door of the baggage car, saw a strange dog on the depot platform. Whether Snap knew this dog, or thought he did, Bert could not tell. But, an instant later, with a bark, Snap pulled away from Bert's grasp on his collar, and leaped out of the open car door. At the same moment the train started off. "Snap! Snap!" cried Bert. "Come back here!" CHAPTER VI AT MEADOW BROOK The train was not going very fast when Snap leaped from the baggage car, but, even if it had been moving at greater speed, it is not likely that Snap would have been hurt. As it was, when the dog leaped from the open door, he did a somersault in the air, for he had learned to do that while in the circus, when he jumped from a high place. "Snap! Snap!" called Bert again. But Snap landed lightly on his feet, and raced across the depot platform toward the dog he had seen. "Say, that's a fine dog of yours!" cried the baggage man admiringly to Bert. "He must be a trick one."