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"We have no right to help ourselves to any cuts of meat from the dead animals." So they returned to the camp, which they found, of course, quite undisturbed. It so happened that the four members of the party who had proposed going to other scenes for the forenoon forgot their projects. Bang! bang! sounded in the direction of the burned-over clearing.
Be a sport, and do listen." "Very well," said Marjorie sulkily. She was a sport by nature, and she was curious. "I've taken a job in Canada reforesting of burned-over areas. I had to go to-night at the latest. It seemed to me that we hadn't either of us given this thing a fair try-out. I hadn't a chance with you unless I took this one.
I smile now remembering how I asked George if be thought I should see anything so fine as this rapid on, the rest of my journey. Splendid as the rapids were, it was a great relief to reach smooth water again, though the current was still swift. Passing a bend half a mile above we came in sight of a beautiful wooded island, and saw that we had reached the edge of the burned-over country.
Then a more severe jolt brought Carley's knee in violent contact with an iron bolt on the forward seat, and it hurt her so acutely that she had to bite her lips to keep from screaming. A smoother stretch of road did not come any too soon for her. It led into forest again. And Carley soon became aware that they had at last left the cut and burned-over district of timberland behind.
By the time they could get help they wouldn't even be sure we were alive. If we can't count on being found right away, this burned-over place will be green again. In two or three weeks they couldn't find it anyhow." Cochrane fidgeted. He had worked out all this for himself. He'd been disturbed at having to tell it, or even admit it to Babs.
This probably includes all burned-over lands, in much of which the standing timber is not destroyed, but the saplings and seedlings are killed as well as the grass for grazing and for the protection of the roots. Much land is burned over in this way year after year until hope of future growth is gone, though the damage to the large trees has not been great.
He did not know how far Frances had succeeded in traveling with her "flare"; but he was quite sure that he had come more than a mile from the wagon-trail. He could soon see a broadening patch of burned-over prairie in the midst of the swirling flames and smoke.
Then things began to get good. First we ran across a flock of ten ptarmigan. They were in the burned-over semi-barren of the hill-top. They seem to lack entirely the instinct to preserve themselves by flying. Only ran ahead, squatting in apparent terror every few feet. We followed with our pistols.
Nobody seemed to have returned to the burned-over space since the ship's departure. The blast of the rockets had erased all previous tracks, but still there was a thin layer of ash resettled over the clearing. Footprints would have been visible in it. Anybody remaining would have come here. Nobody had. Babs and Cochrane were left alone.
"I never even said I thought so to you, have I?" asked the young farmer, sternly. "Nope. I only heard that fire got into the woods by accident, when I was in town. Somebody was hunting through there for coon, and saw the burned-over place. That's all the fellers at Cale's place knew, too, I reckon; but they jest put it up to Pete to mad him." "And they succeeded, did they?" said Hiram, sternly.
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