all the while, the lumber team was coming nearer and nearer to him.
Would the horses, with no driver at the reins, know enough to turn to
one side, or would the wheels roll over poor Freddie and the bicycle?

Nan covered her face with her hands. She did not want to look at what
was going to happen.

"I must get there in time to pull him out of the way!" thought Bert,
as he ran as fast as he could. But the team was almost on Freddie now.

Suddenly the dog Snap, who had jumped up when he heard the shouts, saw
what the danger was. Snap knew about horses, and he was smart enough
to know that Freddie was in danger.

Without waiting for anyone to tell him what to do, Snap ran straight
for the lumber team. Leaping up in front of them, and barking as
loudly as he could, Snap turned the trotting horses to one side. And
just in time, too, for, a little more, and one of the front wheels of
the heavily loaded lumber wagon would have run over the bicycle in
which Freddie was still entangled.

"Bow wow!" barked Snap. The horses were perhaps afraid of being
bitten, though Snap was very gentle. At any rate, they turned aside,
and would have run on faster, only Snap, leaping up, grabbed the
dangling reins in his teeth and pulled hard on them. "Whoa!" called
Bert. When the horses heard this, and felt the tug on the lines, they
knew it meant to stop. And stop they did. Snap had saved Freddie.