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On such a night as this, and in such showers, the flying pigs will go over, which take two men to carry each of them; they go over and root right down to the German dugout, where the German has come in out of the golden rain, and they fling it all up in the air.
As amateurs sometimes do, they had achieved either by plan or accident a perfect design and found that they had a splendid canoe. This was demonstrated when the two boys rowed a race, after Dick had recovered his full strength Dick in the dugout and Albert in the birch bark. The race was the full length of the lake, and the younger and smaller boy won an easy triumph.
Roger leaped into the dugout and paddled down the river toward Garman's house. The place seemed dead and deserted as he stepped onto the dock, and his heart sank with dismay. The Egret was gone. In the boathouse a young sailor was loading several huge trunks into a small launch. "Closing up for the season?" asked Roger as casually as possible. "I dunno what they're doing," grumbled the man.
That is the hardest." Ambrose was silent. "We must get the skin," she went on eagerly. "Giddings can't handle the natives. You do that for me." "It is too late," said Ambrose grimly. "He is gone with it." "Gone?" she exclaimed, with raised eyebrows. "How do you know?" "He came to my camp at dawn," said Ambrose. Honesty compelling him, he added with a touch of defiance; "I gave him my dugout."
After a little time they concluded to wait for the other men who had gone down the river-bank to secure the dugout of an old Indian, who, it seems, was known as Picheu, or the Lynx. "I don't know about a dugout, Moise," said Rob. "There may be bad water below here." "No, not very bad water," said Moise. "I'll ron heem on steamboat many tam! But those dugout she'll been good boat, too.
This done, he yanked his rifle out of the officer's shoulder and jumped to the entrance of the pit for any others that might have escaped his fusillade of grenades. None came. "Billy, take those prisoners out of the dugout," sang out the Sergeant-Major, "and get them to the rear, and tell the rest of the boys to do the same." "I don't know how many are there, sir."
Here he produced from hiding three repeating rifles and several boxes of ammunition. "We'll hold on to these," Hazelton said. "For what reason?" "They'll come in handy to steer off that other crowd." "I wouldn't be bothered with keeping the rifles about camp," Tom retorted, as they started backward. "But say! Gage's man that went to Dugout will soon be back. Do you forget that he carries a rifle?"
While the fighting was still going on a man of the British Signal Corps was running telephone lines up, and had just reached his goal in a captured German trench when he was struck down before the mouth of a dugout. Just as he collapsed a German officer appeared from the depths, and "Signals" could see that there were a number of German soldiers behind him.
"All right," said Reade, sitting up in bed. "I'll get up." He was out of the bunk almost instantly. "I'm going to send Tim Walsh in to help you a bit," Jim whispered. "The crust is right this morning, and I'm off for Dugout. Before we forget it give me that nugget."
At Yakutat, where the timber is much smaller, the canoes, although still dugouts, have decreased proportionately in size, but from Yakutat westward the timber line becomes lower and lower, until the western half of the island of Kadiak is reached, where the trees disappear altogether, and the dugout gives place to the skin canoe or baidarka.
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