So, after school was out, and the cookies which Dinah had given the
children had been eaten down to the last crumbs, Nan took Flossie and
Freddie home with her, and Bert and some of his boy chums went to the
lumberyard. On the way they made snowballs and threw them at trees and
fences.
"There he is!" said Bert to Charley and Danny, as they saw Mr. Hickson
measuring a pile of boards and marking the lengths down in a book.
"There's the man that came out of the railroad wreck!"
"Pooh, he isn't hurt a bit!" exclaimed Danny Rugg. "I thought you said
his head was cut, Bert Bobbsey!"
"'Tis cut!" declared Bert. "Isn't your head cut, and weren't you hurt
in the railroad wreck?" cried Bert, as Mr. Hickson waved his hand in
greeting.
"Well, it isn't cut much--you can see where it is," and, taking off
his hat, the old man showed the boys a piece of sticking plaster which
had been put over the cut.
"There! What'd I tell you?" cried Bert.
Danny and Charley said nothing. They were satisfied now that they had
actually seen the man himself and the cut he had got in the wreck.
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