CHAPTER VII
AT SCHOOL

FREDDIE saw Danny coming, and did the most natural thing in the world.
He dropped the hose and ran. And you know what a hose, with water
bursting from the nozzle will sometimes do if you don't hold it just
right. Well, this hose did that. It seemed to aim itself straight at
Danny, and again the rough boy received a charge of water full in the
face.

"Ha—ha—here! You quit that!" he gasped. "I'll fix you for that!"

The water got in his eyes and mouth, and for a moment he could not see.
But with his handkerchief he soon had his eyes cleared, and then he came
running toward Bert.

Danny Rugg was larger than Bert, and stronger, and, in addition, was a
bullying sort of chap, almost always ready to fight some one smaller
than himself.

But what Bert lacked in size and strength he made up in a bold Spirit.
He was not at all afraid of Danny, even when the bully came rushing at
him. Bert stood his ground manfully. He had taken up the hose where
Freddie had dropped it, and the water was spurting out in a solid
stream. Freddie, having gotten a safe distance away, now turned and
stood looking at Danny.

Danny, too, had halted and was fairly glaring at Bert, who looked at him
a bit anxiously. More than once he and the bully had come to blows, and
sometimes Bert had gotten the best of it. Still he did not like a