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By the first ray of the morning's light the camp was stirring. Shouldering their rifles and knapsacks, they started on their way. In a little time they found a dead panther. Boone declared that this was his panther; the animal was killed with one ball, and by comparing that ball with those in his shot-bag, he found they were of the same size.
He evidently kept his gun and ammunition in this out-building, for he had a powder-horn and shot-bag suspended from his shoulders. "What are you going to do with that gun, Cuffy?" asked Deck, who was rather astonished to see him armed. "I's gwine to shoot one of dose men if dey try to kill me, as dey done sworn dey would," replied the ferryman.
Let's borrow of Uncle Adam or Miss Prue." "But old Adam Standish is nearly as poor as we, Molly." "No, he ain't," with a toss of her head; "he's got a heap of money! He keeps it in an old shot-bag, and I've seen it myself; he's got well, as much as five dollars, I do believe!"
Mother will do it, too, I know; for if it hadn't been for Le, we shouldn't have seen this money." "We will talk with your mother about it," replied Mr. Hamilton, as he put the gold back into the shot-bag, and asked the watch-maker to keep it in the safe till the next day, when he intended to dispose of it in Rockland.
This little dandy in eye-glasses had certainly upset all Leopold's plans for the disposition of the gold. "Halveses!" shouted Charley a second time, as he adjusted his eye-glasses, and fixed his gaze upon the wet shot-bag which contained the hidden treasure. "I think not," added Leopold. "No? When a fellow finds any money, the rule is to divy with all present," added Charley.
"Well, don't you remember when I told you to count the Indians standing out there, I leant agin you to look over your shoulder? I stole a cartrich out of your shot-bag then, and slipt it in the muzzle of your musket. Don't you know it was leaning agin the post?" Joe turned round and looked Sneak full in the face for several moments, without uttering a word.
Then is the moment for the sportsman, who, concealed in a large thicket and comfortably seated at the summit of the hill, listens and laughs in his sleeve as he hears the affrighted partridge call, and the timid hare rushing through the vines towards him; they approach, are within range of his gun, and ere long the shot-bag is emptied, and the sportsman is in that rare but agreeable dilemma of not knowing what to do with his game or his gun.
"No, uncle; but I feel better in handing it over to Stumpy than I should in spending it myself," laughed Leopold. "Himmel! Stumpy!" "Yes Stumpy." And the money-digger briefly stated the facts which had been discovered. "Donner and blitz! I'm glad for der poy, but sorry for you," added the watch-maker, as he took from the safe the shot-bag containing the treasure. "Take it, Stumpy.
He now turned his attention to the wounded duck, which was swimming in a circle around his dead companion, as if perfectly bewildered. "I wish I had my powder-flask and shot-bag," said Archie. "How foolish I was not to bring them! I bet that I'll never start out again with only one load in my gun." But there was no time for regrets.
"And now let us ask these mute witnesses to speak to us. "Here we have an empty linen shot-bag. What is its message? This: that robbery was the motive, not revenge. What is its further message? This: that the assassin was of inferior intelligence shall we say light-witted, or perhaps approaching that? How do we know this?
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