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So, Monkey, please keep that goose-call of yours in your pocket the rest of the time." "Perhaps, we had better get ourselves comfortably fixed before night finds us," suggested Hugh. "We can make a blaze in that fireplace and cook supper here as nice as any one would want. It's going to turn out a novel experience for the lot of us." "You bet it, will," asserted Monkey Stallings stoutly.
Availing himself of this weakness, our Eskimo hid himself behind a bush, and was opening his mouth to give vent to a stentorian goose-call when he was checked, and apparently petrified, by a loud report, which echoed among the neighbouring cliffs. The youth knew the sound well. He had heard it only once before, but, once heard, it could never be forgotten.
"Oh! no danger of them coming back again," Billy assured him. "They got the scare of their lives when you tooted that goose-call. Long before now that brace of tramps has struck the railroad ties, and are making tracks for other regions where they don't have old castles haunted by spooks." The last picture was finally taken. Alec seemed satisfied with what he had done.
The way is clear for us now, and, thank goodness, we won't have to sleep under the same roof with that greasy pair of rascals, and, after all; that was the end in view." "Monkey," said Arthur, "you've put us all under heavy obligations by what you did, and for one I'm not going to forget it, or twit you about the funny noises you manage to coax out of that bone goose-call you made.
Faster and faster grew their pace as Monkey blew more furiously on his home-made "goose-call" with telling effect.
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