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The individual thus hailed turned about, and looked back to see who it was that called. As he did so his face was seen, and Nick Ribsam gave utterance to an expression of astonishment. The stranger ahead of the two boys was Herbert Watrous, the city youth upon whom Nick had sat down so hard three years before.
Ribsam took another puff or two, as if to make sure that his boy was not leading him into a trap, and then he solemnly nodded his head. "Dot ish so, dot am, yaw." "Then if Philadelphia has one hundred people for its population, New York has one hundred and fifty?" "Yaw, and Pheelatelphy has feefty per cent. less yaw, yaw, yaw!" "Hold on, father, not so fast.
"A lift that is, I helped them." "Dot ish all right, but don't let me hears dot nopody vos efer helping you; if I does " And taking his pipe from his mouth, Mr. Ribsam shook his head in a way which threatened dreadful things.
It was Nick Ribsam who made the proposal; the others were inclined to hold back, but the plucky little fellow insisted, and it was agreed that Bowser's secret should be learned by keeping him company to the spot which he visited.
At that instant, Nick Ribsam felt himself suddenly lifted in air and spinning forward with great speed on the back of the vigorous hog, which plunged between his rather short legs. The astounded lad instantly stopped laughing, and, dropping his gun and torch, grasped at something to sustain himself against the peril, the nature of which he could hardly guess.
"That is too bad, but it isn't worth while to go back now," replied his father, hardly slackening his gait. As the lantern which Mrs. Ribsam had handed to her husband was lighted before leaving home, the men in advance detected it immediately after they were seen themselves, and the halloo of the teacher was answered by Nick.
"I tell you there is a good deal more in the heads of brutes than many of us think," said Nick Ribsam, after he had studied the actions of the hound; "I believe he wanted to make us believe there was some sort of game out there so as to play the fool with us." "Do you think he foresaw the trick of the hog?" asked Herbert, who was rubbing his bruised elbows and knees.
This was enough to keep any one at a respectful distance, but, when Nellie Ribsam heard the alarming announcement, she was determined on one thing: she would see for herself what sort of a picture was made by a boy up a tree with a black bear watching him as the one watched her two years before.
"I will club it and see what can be done." Glancing over his shoulder, Nick Ribsam kept informed of the movements of his fierce foe, who was certainly carrying things with a hurricane rush.
Layton, although strict to severity in the school-room, was a kind-hearted man and was fond of the Ribsam children, for they were bright, cheerful, and obedient, and never gave him any trouble, as did some of his other pupils. He listened to Nick's story, and his sympathy was aroused at once.
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