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Given a few months with us, and his mother won't know her darling angelic little boy." "Say, Thad," sang out Step-hen just then; "what d'ye reckon could have happened to the fellers that own the bear? We've been talking it over, and no two think alike. Some say they got tired feeding the beast, and turned him loose on the community, to browse off poor scouts, camping out for the first time.
What do you want me to do, Thad?" "Explain the situation to the others, and then have Allan and Bob White paddle over; yes, Step-hen might as well come with them to take back the boat again, for the officers will need it when they arrive." The canoe was easily carried down to the water and then Smithy with a few directions from his chief, started across.
Those yells did not appear to be given by Allan, Step-hen, Davy Jones or Smithy. They were fashioned on another key from the well-known voices of these fellow scouts. Of course, the first and most natural idea that flashed into Thad's mind lay in the direction of the two foreigners, whom Smithy seemed to believe must be Bohemians.
He came without invitation, and is kept here perhaps against his will; but all the same we owe him a heavy debt of gratitude." "Yes," spoke up Bumpus, who had not cared very much for the latter end of his breakfast, as he was a light eater, and rather particular, "fussy" Step-hen called it, "which we will proceed to cancel by a heavy dose of dough. Give him my share, boys, and welcome.
"Of course you are; though we've got plenty to eat besides fish," remarked Step-hen; "but they sure did taste mighty fine, Giraffe; and I'll take a turn with you along the shore. We can get on without the boat, I reckon." "Count me in that job, if Allan will let me go along," Bumpus declared, showing considerable interest.
Every eye was glued on the form of Smithy, and doubtless more than one of them really wondered while thus holding his breath in suspense, if the starving beast would actually seize upon the boy who came offering gifts. "Oh! he took it!" gasped Step-hen. "And it was the whole of that half loaf too," added Giraffe, with a sigh of regret. "The chain, quick!
There was Step-hen on the other side of the same friendly oak, breathing hard, and casting frequent looks aloft, as though considering whether it might not be a wise thing to mount upward, so as not to attract the attention of the bear towards himself. Smithy was perhaps almost as badly frightened as Bumpus, only he did not meet with the series of mishaps that befell the fat boy.
Just as Step-hen said, it's like a boy trying to show his first skill in drawing; but in this case every little mark has its meaning." "It's interesting, all right, Allan," observed Davy Jones.
"Well, I just can't find it on me anywhere," complained Step-hen; "and as I remembered showing it to Bumpus, I thought he was setting up a game on me by hiding it somewhere about him. He wouldn't let me look in his pack, either, you know." "Course I wouldn't!" cried the fat boy, indignantly; "because that'd look like I half admitted the charge. Guess I know enough about law to understand that.
The fifth wears a hat; and as for the sixth, he must be feeling the effects of looking into a bottle too many times; because he wobbles some as he pursues his way. Got all that, fellows?" "Sure, and it's some interesting, Allan," declared Step-hen. "Well, they've been in camp here, for you can see the remains of a fire, but with very little smoke ascending, showing that it is nearly dead.
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