Bobby Blake on a Plantation; Or, Lost in the Great Swamp

Bobby's heart

d of the flames as much as possible. Then he raced through the hall, bang

The school

tartled inmates of the rooms, and doors were tor

he school. He grasped the rope and pulled it back and forth with all his might, and the bell

up the fire station in the town of Rockledge and told the news, gett

o had rushed into the halls in all stages of dress and undress, and began hurriedly to slip on his o

ut?" asked Fred, as he

he bell would wake the dead. I passed most of them already out in the hall. Oh, but there's Lee!" he fairly shouted, ju

t then flames burst through the door of the burning room

and thrust it into the pitcher of water that stood on the

e rest of the water over me!"

Bobby darted o

ames holding his breath as he did so, in order that he migh

y it and hardly knowing what he was doing was stagger

p, Lee!"

's head and shoulders. Then he started to lead him to the door, but Lee

ed himself from head to foot, appeared at

," panted Bobby. "Then you take his feet and I'll t

ands of Dr. Raymond and Mr. Carrier, who had come rushing in half dressed from the adjoining building. The half-unconscious boy was taken to a safe place and

could do little toward checking the fire. Then a bucket brigade was organized, and the boys worked like Trojans in passing the buckets from hand to hand. But

en the fire company thought it safe to depart, leaving one of their number to

of matters. Some of the rooms had been burned out altogether, including that occupied by Bobby and Fred. They had had time how

incurred by that rapid rush through the flames, and some of the other boys had minor injuries, incurred chiefly in the effort to s

just then!" exclaimed Shiner. "If you hadn't,

etails of his fight with the alligators in his dream. "If I hadn't been shocked awake by

t through the fire for Lee," commented Mouser. "A little later a

ck," replied Bobby. "He wasn't in

e were doubled up in rooms that had been left intact, and others were taken over in the adjoining wing, where some spare cots were installed for their use. None of the

or went back to his quarters, but not witho

quality of which I spoke to you two weeks ago, that of quick thinking. There is no doubt that i

they crept into bed, "but I sure am glad I had that one. That dream all

l the world that he was the best