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The fire had burned low, so what the form was Shep could not tell. "Help!" screamed the doctor's son. He was not yet fully awake. "Wha -what's the matter?" spluttered Snap, throwing aside his blanket. "What's wrong?" came from Whopper and Giant simultaneously. "Something -a wild animal -in here -jumped over me!" gasped Shep. "It just went outside!" "Oh, you are dreaming, Shep," said Snap.
Once the wind cut loose a corner of the tent, and, despite the rain, Shep and Snap had to go out and cut longer pegs with which to fasten the ropes. They had on rubber coats, but still got a good deal of water in their faces and down their necks. It was impossible to light a camp fire, and so they had to eat a cold supper of such things as chanced to be handy.
"Hello, Jed!" sang out Snap, and ran forward to stop the man. "Why, boys, how are ye!" said the old hunter, turning around and halting. "Ready to go on your summer trip?" And he smiled broadly. "Not yet," answered Shep. "But we are going out after the Fourth of July." "So I heard. Well, I hope ye have as good a time as ye had last summer an' last winter."
When it was dawn they looked upon the country and saw how it was without doubt the appointed place, even as Ali had said, for the earth had been taken out of pits and burned and left lying in heaps, and there were many factories, and they stood over the town and as it were rejoiced. And with one voice Shep and Shooshan gave praise to Ali.
We came out last summer and also last winter." "Up here?" "No, to Lake Cameron and Firefly Lake." "That's different from Lake Narsac. Don't you know this place is haunted?" And Peter Peterson looked at the boys very solemnly. "We've heard something about that, but we aren't afraid," said Shep. "We are more afraid of snakes than we are of ghosts," added Whopper.
"I am not going to bed so very early, Shep. I am afraid some of those tramps who follow the circus will come and rob me. I heard the town was full of the good-for-nothings." "You had better lock up good after we are gone," said Giant. "No fear but what I'll do that," answered Mrs. Carson. "We'll try not to wake you up when we come in, aunty." "I'll hear you, never fear.
"They will run too far. Some day -listen!" They listened, and from a distance heard two gun shots, followed by several more. "Somebody else is out," said Shep. "Wonder who it can be?" He was destined to find out before he was many hours older. It was no light matter to get the three deer down to the lake shore.
"Then keep still and I'll aid you," answered the leader of the Gun Club. "Come, Shep." "What we you going to do?" "I'll show you. Be quick." Walking to the nearest bushes, Snap cut them down with the hatchet he had insisted upon carrying. Shep now understood, and both lugged the bushes to the edge of the fast sinking snow.
"I think somebody ought to remain on guard after this," said Shep, when it came time to retire. "We don't know what to expect in such a place as this. There are the ghosts, and the snakes, and unknown wild beasts, and other things we know nothing of." "I am willing," answered Snap.
"Let us look around for tracks," put in Giant, and got down on his hands and knees. The others began the hunt also, and soon they came upon some large tracks, leading deep into the woods and up the rocks beyond. "It was certainly a bear," said Snap, and now his voice had something of seriousness in it. "Boys, I must say I don't like this." "No more do I," answered Shep.
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