Then, happy and laughing, the Bobbsey twins started for school.
"Did you go down and see the big railroad wreck yesterday?" asked
Danny Rugg of Bert at the school-yard gate.
"Sure I saw it," was the answer.
"And we got a man out of it, too," said Nan.
"You got a man out of the wreck! What do you mean?" exclaimed Danny.
"Did you go down and pull him out?"
"No," Nan went on. "But we saw him, and he's at our house now."
"He works for my father," said Bert, and he told the story of Hiram
Hickson, not speaking, however, about the two sons of the old man who
had run away from him because of a quarrel. Bert did not think his
father would like to have him tell this outside the family.
"I was right close to the engine when it puffed out a lot of steam,"
said Danny Rugg. "And I ran away like anything!"
"So did we!" said Bert.
All the boys and girls were talking about the wreck that morning, and
because they had had such a curious part in it--having at their home
one of the passengers who had been hurt--Bert and Nan were the center
of a little throng that wanted to hear, over and over again, about it.
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