"All right, sir. Lane's Corners
it is. All aboard."
He pulled the bell and the car started. The seven little boys found
seats together at one end of the car, and the conductor made them laugh
all the way to Lane's Corners. There were only two other people in the
car, an elderly man and a man who read his newspapers and did not look
up. The conductor pretended half the time that the trolley was a boat
and that the boys were sailors. And then he would pretend that he was
the conductor on a train and that the motorman was the engineer. It
was not a long ride to Lane's Corners and the merry conductor made it
seem only a few minutes.
"Who wanted to get off at Lane's Corners?" he called, when he had
stopped the car at the big white sign post. "Why, goodness, all my
passengers are leaving me! Here, lad, catch this," he shouted to Bob,
picking up Sunny Boy and pretending to toss him to Bob, who was waiting
for them.
"It's a good thing you wore boots and rubbers," said Bob, as the
trolley car went on, leaving the boys, who waved to the conductor as
long as they could see him on the platform. "The mud is up to the hub
of the wagon wheels."
CHAPTER XV
ANOTHER RESCUE
A horse and wagon stood at one side of the road, and Bob led the boys
over and told them to "hop in."
"Isn't this the horse and wagon that was lost in the blizzard?" asked
Sunny Boy, scrambling up to a seat beside Bob.
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