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Updated: June 4, 2025
"I reckon I got the whole bunch; but no harm in making one more try," and as he spoke Thad pushed his arm again into the dark opening. Maurice watched him as if amused. "Another, eh?" he laughed, as he saw Thad draw back, with an exclamation of surprise and wonder. "No trap this time; but something else poor old The must have shoved in there for safe-keeping."
Only two words were spoken, a "You, huh?" from the larger chap; then a quick tackle, a short straining scuffle, and Thad was thrown so violently sidewise and hurtled against the bench from which Bill had just risen, that it and Thad went over on the ground together. The bench and the lad seemed to lie there equally helpless. Gus picked up the crutch and handed it to his chum. "Let's go.
Then she opened a cupboard. "Here are the dishes," taking out a little box. "And bread, jam, milk, sugar, and candy." "Candy!" cried Betty, rushing out to tell Thad. "Candy? Hooray!" shouted Thad. For there are no shops out in that wild country where a boy can run for a stick of lemon or gumdrops every time he gets a penny.
We've heard a heap about how you used to haul 'em in; now's your chance to prove that you're the big gun of this trip." "All right, just as you say, and we'll leave it to Thad to lay down the terms of the contest, the loser to treat the crowd to a dinner when we get back home," Bumpus went on to say, with the took of one who would die sooner than give up.
Do you really think we could do it, Thad?" he exclaimed. "Do I? Why, it would be as easy as pie. Think of it; all you have to do is to let the current carry you along. It's a snap, that's what!" cried the other, brimming over with enthusiasm. Ah!
Once we get by here, I've a hunch the going may be better." "Yes," said Thad, whirling his shillalah around in a lively way, as a token of what he meant to do in case of an emergency. By the time they reached the spot where the trees joined branches across the dimly defined road both boys were in somewhat of a feverish state of apprehension.
"You'll have to explain what you mean, Bumpus?" declared Thad; while Step-hen half started from his seat on a blanket, his face becoming scarlet as if he expected that every eye would immediately be turned in his direction. "I tell you I hung it right on the pole in the middle of the tent, and now it's clean gone. Yes, I even hunted around on the ground, and everywhere, but nary a sign did I see.
Hobbs, with a twinkle in his kindly eyes, "that isn't at all necessary; because all arrangements have been made, the boat is waiting only a few miles away, and you have an efficient assistant scout-master in this fine chap here, Thad Brewster, who will take charge while I'm away, as he has done on numerous other sad occasions."
Indeed, it even gave Thad a start, with all that racket, and the cries of the terrified boys adding to the volume of sound. "Now give us some light, Thad!" called Hugh, wishing to glimpse the drenched culprits before they could scramble through the opening again, and make their escape. Thad was so excited he could hardly remember what he had done with his new electric hand-torch.
He had seen the other focus his glasses straight toward the tree, in the dead upper branches of which, he, Thad, was clinging, and wildly waving his improvised signal flag. "He sees me! Good for that!" Thad said to himself; while his heart was pounding wildly within its prison, because of the excitement that had seized him in its grip.
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