And how tired their feet did become! If you have ever walked the railroad tracks (which you certainly must never do unless grown people are with you, for it is a dangerous practise) you know that stepping from tie to tie between the rails is a very uncomfortable way to travel, because the ties are not laid at equal distances apart. First Vi and Laddie had to take a short step and then a long step. And if they missed the tie in stepping, their shoes crunched right down into the wet cinders, for the ground by no means was all dried up since the heavy rain.
"Oh, me, I'm so tired!" complained Vi, after a while.
"So'm I," confessed her twin brother.
"And I don't see daddy coming for us," added Vi, her voice tremulous with tears again.
"I SEE SOMETHING!" CRIED LADDIE.
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"I see something!" cried Laddie suddenly and hopefully. He did not want his sister to begin crying.
"Is it Daddy Bunker?" demanded Vi, looking ahead eagerly.
"It's a house—right beside the railroad," said Laddie, quickening his own pace a little and trying to drag Vi along, as he still held her hand.