CHAPTER XIV

THE EXPLORERS SET OUT

And that was what Sunny Boy said to every one who asked him why he had
gone into the burning school.

"I had to get Jessie's coat and rubbers," he repeated, when the
"George" policeman asked him.

And the big firemen, who soon crowded around him, and Miss May and Miss
Davis, who came hurrying home, breathless, for they had seen the crowd
around the school the moment they stepped off the trolley car at the
corner, were given the same reason.

"Well, next time, you remember that no coat and no rubbers are worth
going after when a place is on fire," said one of the firemen, fanning
himself with his helmet, for fighting a fire is warm work, you know.
"There is just one thing to risk your life for at a fire," he went on
to explain to Sunny Boy and to the other children who crowded around to
hear. "Just one thing, and that's another life. Think you youngsters
can remember that?"

Sunny Boy was sure he could, and the firemen began to roll up their
chemical hose. They had not even unwound the big hose for, you see,
Miss May's school had not been on fire.