“Sure, I’m all right. What happened, anyhow?”
“You went into the cave, fell, and hit your head so hard that you fainted,” his mother told him, while she parted his hair to look for a possible cut or gash.
“Oh, I remember now,” Bert said, in a dazed sort of way, putting his hand to his head. “I felt myself falling and I yelled to Freddie so he wouldn’t come in and get in the hole. Yes, I hit my head all right.”
But it was nothing worse than this, and aside from a little cut on his scalp Bert suffered no injury. A drink of water and some more of the cool fluid on his head soon made him feel all right again.
“It isn’t safe to go into a dark cave without a light, unless you know every step of the way,” warned Mr. Bobbsey, as they went back to where Nan and Flossie had been left with the baby.
But before that was done Mr. Bobbsey explored the cave. He found that the recent rain had washed out a deep hole near the entrance, and it was this hole into which Bert had unsuspectingly stepped.
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“Some one else may do the same thing,” Mr. Bobbsey said. “I’ll put some tree branches in front of the cave as a warning. Later we’ll make a danger sign to fasten up over the entrance.”