The Boy Scouts of Bob's Hill: A Sequel to 'The Bob's Hill Braves'Burton, Charles Pierce
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The Boy Scouts of Bob's Hill: A Sequel to 'The Bob's Hill Braves'
Burton, Charles Pierce
Boy Scouts of America -- Juvenile fiction; Camping -- Juvenile fiction; Youth -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile fiction
By that time, Hank and Benny had come back with two or three men from
Hoosac Tunnel station, and they went to work with jacks to get the
engineer and fireman out.
"A special train is coming from Readsboro," Hank told us. "It's bringing
some doctors and the wrecker."
"Do you feel able to continue your journey, Mrs. Richmond?" Mr. Norton
asked. "We could manage to carry the little girl as far as the station
and there is a train due from North Adams in about an hour. Or would you
rather wait for the special and go back?"
"I think we'd better go back to Readsboro," she said. "We have friends
there and I don't feel much like walking."
We didn't have long to wait, for the train soon came puffing down the
valley. Two doctors jumped off before it had time to stop and hurried
over to where we were standing. They were surprised some, when they saw
the people all bandaged up.
"Who did this?" asked one of them, standing over the conductor. "I
thought there were no surgeons here. Did you succeed in getting somebody
from North Adams?"
"These boys," Mr. Norton told him. "They are Boy Scouts and have been in
training some time for this very job."
The doctor gave a little whistle.
"Good thing for him," he said, "that they were around. I couldn't have
done it much better, myself."
We felt proud when he said that, and I could tell by the way Mr. Norton
smiled at us that he was feeling pretty good over it.
All the same, the doctor bandaged him over again, to make sure that
everything was all right. When he had finished, the hurt ones were put
on board the train and made as comfortable as possible. We heard some
cheering over by the wreck and hurried back to find out what had
happened.
"They are alive," a man explained. "We've jacked her up a little, and
the engineer just spoke to us. He says that the fireman is alive, too."
It made us feel better to know that they were alive, and the men worked
like sixty to get them out. By that time the wrecking crew had the big
crane ready. After that it was easy. It didn't take long to swing the
heavy frame clear of the ground and to one side.
The two men were found somewhere in the mass, badly hurt but alive,
which was more than we could understand.
They were lifted out as carefully as possible and carried to the car.
"Good-by, boys!" called Mary out of the window.
"Good-by! God bless you, dear children!" said Mrs. Richmond.
"Good-by,--good-by," yelled the brakeman.
The doctors were too busy to say good-by to anybody. We watched the
train steam up through the valley; then Mr. Norton took each one of us
by the hand, and he squeezed hard.
We heard afterward that both men got well, although many weeks passed
before they were able to work again.
We started for home, bright and early the next morning, taking all day
for the climb over the mountain and camping that night among the
foothills on the west side. It was only six or seven miles from there
home, and we were so tough and hard that it didn't seem far.
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