BOBBIE BUBBLES
By E. Hugh Sherwood and Maud Gridley Budlong
Illustrated by E. Hugh Sherwood
1916
Dedicated to Anna Sophia
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BOBBIE BUBBLES
Bobbie Bubbles was the most wonderful bubble blower that ever lived.
No, his father's name wasn't Bubbles, and bubble blowing wasn't the family trade. Maybe the Smiths got their name because their great-great-great-grandfather's grandfather was a blacksmith, and maybe the Johnsons got their name because once, ages ago, a man named John had a son; but Bobbie Bubbles didn't get his name secondhand from anybody. He got it himself, because he was a famous person. And this is how it happened.
One day Bobbie and Betty and Billy were out in the garden blowing bubbles. They all blew bubbles, big ones and little ones, till evening came and it was almost time for tea. Then Billy said, “I can blow the biggest bubble anybody's blown to-day,” and blew a bubble as big as an apple.
“I can blow one bigger than that,” said Betty, and blew a bubble as big as a toy balloon.
“I'll blow a bigger one still,” said Bobbie, and he blew and blew, and the bubble grew and grew—as big as a pumpkin, as big as the snowball they'd rolled in the yard at Christmas.
Even then the wonderful bubble did not stop, but