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One day, when spring was near at hand, and when it was nearly time for the circus to travel on the road, from one town to another, Tum Tum was out in front of the barn, helping push some of the big circus wagons about. He pushed them with his strong head. All at once Tum Tum felt something bite him on the hind leg, and he heard a barking noise, such as monkeys sometimes make.
She seized him by the shoulders from behind, shielding him from the woods, and hurried him, half expostulating, half struggling, to the house. But there no gun was to be found. It was strange; it must have been mislaid in some corner! Was he sure he had not left it in the barn? But no matter now.
"Down, Rover, down!" came in a man's voice, and a moment later Aaron Masterson appeared. He was a man of sixty, bent from age and hard work. "Good evening, Mr. Masterson," said Snap. "I don't know if you remember me or not. I am Charley Dodge. My father sold you the lumber for your new barn." "Oh, yes, I remember you," said the old farmer, with a smile. "You came to the raising, didn't you?
A fiery-haired Scot, a Highlander, sat upon a barrel-head sawing at a fiddle, and the shrill scream of it filled the barn. To tone he did not aspire, but he played with Caledonian nerve and swing, and kept the snapping time.
"That's right enough," agreed Jim, "but I tell you what we can do, we'll crawl down under the hay, get close to the wall, and our loudest snores would be smothered." "I guess you're right," agreed Berwick. "So lead on and I will follow." "This reminds me of when I was a boy," declared Jim; "when we used to tunnel in the hay to hide in the old barn on the back lot."
By the dim starlight it was just before dawn he could see all of the open yard and roadway before the house, with the great barn looming like a black and sinister shadow as its farther barrier.
"That's right," agreed Ned. "We ought to celebrate this victory in some way," suggested Fenn, as a crowd of boys, including several members of the ball team, joined the chums. "We ought to get up a dinner and have speeches and things like that." "Nothing to eat, of course," said Ned. "Oh, sure; lots to eat," Fenn hastened to add. "Where could we have it?" asked Lem. "In our barn," replied Fenn.
"I didn't think you could hit the side of a barn unless you were inside the barn." The professor smiled grimly. "I used to be counted the best revolver shot in my regiment when I was in the army. But I'm a little slow these days." "Humph! I see you are," grunted Billy. "Lucky for me that you aren't quick or I wouldn't have had any hat left by this time.
Can I see your barn?" &c. The stable boy took him to the barn, from whence he soon returned; his face flushed, and breathing so heavily as to be heard all through the apartment; trembling so violently that he could scarcely speak at all, but made out to inquire, "if there was not some place besides the barn where he could put his horses?"
And after he got through with that he went out to the barn and then walked home." "I must go to him immediately," said Agnes. "But not alone," said I. And together we walked through the woods, over the little field and across the Havelot lawn to the house. We were told that the old gentleman was in his library, and together we entered the room. Mr.
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