Bert was walking in the rear with Charley Mason, when Danny Rugg
came around a corner.

"I know what I'm going to do to you after school, Bert Bobbsey!"
called the bully. "You just wait and see."

"All right--I'll wait," spoke Bert quietly. "I'm not afraid."

By this time they were at the school, and it was nearly time for the
last bell to ring. Danny went off to join some of his particular
chums, shaking his fist at Bert as he went.





CHAPTER VIII

BERT SEES SOMETHING




Lessons were not very well learned that first day in school, but
this is generally the case when the Fall term opens after the Summer
vacation.

Just as were the Bobbsey twins, nearly all the other pupils were
thinking of what good times they had had in the country, or at the
seashore, and in consequence little attention was paid to reading,