WHAT THE WELL CONTAINED
The next day everybody was out early.
"The men are going to clean the well," Harry told the others, "and it's lots of fun to see all the stuff they bring up."
"Can we go?" Freddie asked.
"Nan will have to take charge of you and Flossie," said Mrs. Bobbsey, "for wells are very dangerous, you know."
This was arranged, and the little ones promised to do exactly as Nan told them.
The well to be cleaned was the big one at the corner of the road and the lane. From the well a number of families got their supply of water, and it being on the road many passersby also enjoyed from it a good cold drink.
"There they come," called Bert, as two men dressed like divers came up the road.
They wore complete rubber suits, hip-boots, rubber coats, and rubber caps. Then they had some queer-looking machines, a windlass, a force pump, grappling irons, and other tools.
The boys gathered around the men—all interested, of course, in the work.