"Flossie Flossie Look at me I'm having a steamboat ride Oh, look " "I am looking, Freddie Bobbsey " "No, you're not You're playing with your doll Look at me splash, Flossie " A little boy with blue eyes and light, curling hair was standing on a raft in the middle of a shallow pond of water left in a green meadow after a heavy rain. In his hand he held a long pole with which he was beating the water, making a shower of drops that sparkled in the sun.