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The deer seemed perfectly to understand his meaning, for she shook her antlers and small tufted tail, and trotted down the other hill towards the Norwegian. Our guide still kept moving forward by stealthy steps, while the animal quickened its motion from a trot to a canter, and arriving within a yard of the proffered salt-bag, made a dead stop.
I set the package on the stove again, and replied: "You must take me for a d d fool, sure enough; but you don't look like you had any more sense than the law allows. I got that salt out of the salt-bag, and I tasted it before I wrapped it up, and I know it is salt, and that settles it."
I was running to and fro in the dark on this side of the trucks as the te-train moved up and down slowly. They fell upon two men sitting under this truck Hajji, what shall I do with this lump of tobacco? Wrap it in paper and put it under the salt-bag? Yes and struck them down.
"Something heavy, and all sewed up in a coarse bag like that! It's as good as a ghost story. Let's get at it right away." They sat down on the wet steps while Leslie unrolled the bag, not much larger than a big salt-bag, and tried to tear an opening at the top. But her slender fingers were not equal to the task, so Phyllis undertook it. "Let me try!" she urged.
There were one small pot, two stools, an earthen pitcher, a few wooden trenchers lying upon a shelf, an old dusty salt-bag, an ash stick, broken in the middle, and doubled down so as to form a tongs; and gathered up in a corner was a truss of straw, covered with a rug and a thin old blanket, which had constituted a wretched substitute for a bed.
"Now," continued Frank, "we want some pieces of cloth, large enough to tie over the tops of these baskets and pails." These were speedily procured, and, in a few moments, William returned with the salt-bag filled with stones. "Now, tell us what you intend to do," exclaimed Harry, whose patience was well-nigh exhausted. "We are making some sham provisions," said Frank.
The Norwegian examined these marks with much minuteness; and when he had satisfied himself that they were the hoof-prints of the rein-deer, and not of the smaller cows of the country, he thrust his hand into the salt-bag that was still suspended from his left side, like a good-sized rook's nest, and vociferated, "Salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! salt! salt!"
No sooner did the guide perceive the animal, than he tugged the salt-bag from his belt, and, holding it in his left hand, extended it at arm's length before him, creeping down the hillock on which we had clustered, exclaiming, "Kommit; salt, h-o-o-o! salt, h-o-o-o! kommit, kommit."
"I'll go up to the house and see." He led the way, followed by three or four of the smugglers, and the articles in question were soon brought into the boat-house. "Now, Bill," said Frank, "you take this salt-bag, if you please, and fill it with smooth, round stones, about the size of lemons." "All right," answered William, who began to see through the trick.
Finding wheat-coffee and dry bread rather poor living, we clubbed together, and I went to the town on horseback, with a great salt-bag behind the saddle, and a few reals in my pocket, and brought back the bag full of onions, beans, pears, watermelons, and other fruits; for the young woman who tended the garden, finding that I belonged to the American ship, and that we were short of provisions, put in a larger portion.
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