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Updated: June 21, 2025
As we have seen, he loved to exaggerate when telling things, yet with it all Whopper, so called, was as truthful as anybody. As Snap said, "you could always tell Whopper's whoppers a mile off," which I think was something of a whopper in itself, don't you? The youngest lad of the four was Will Gaslette, always called Billy or Giant.
As Whopper turned towards it, the deer suddenly made for the boy. "Look out!" yelled Snap, but before Whopper could turn aside the deer was on him and had knocked him to the ground. Then the deer struck out with its hoofs, landing on Whopper's shoulder and cheek. It was a moment of extreme peril, for there could be no doubt but that the deer meant to kill the young hunter.
Caslette, and the time to start is when they are young." After that the widow said no more, and so it was settled, so far as Giant was concerned. Then the three boys talked the matter over with Whopper's folks, and at last they gave in also, and then the boys danced a regular war-dance in Whopper's back yard, which made even Mrs. Dawson laugh. "Well, boys will be boys," she said.
Their arms and backs ached from the labor, and their hands were scratched and their finger nails torn, but to all this they paid no attention. Their sole thought was to get out of the cave that looked as if it might become their tomb. At last the opening was large enough to admit of the passage of Whopper's body and he passed to the outside.
"A fellow who would play such a trick ought to be tarred and feathered," was Whopper's comment. "If it proves to be Peterson we'll have him driven out of this neighborhood fast enough," said Snap. Another hour went by, and as the ghost did not reappear the young hunters grew heavy eyed, and one after another took a short nap.
The rocks bothered them a great deal and twice both fell, dropping their load as they did so. "This is the finest pleasure stroll I ever took in my life," was Whopper's rather sarcastic comment. "Such level walking, and such nice bright sunshine, with birds singing and Oh!" And his speech came to an end as he went down again, this time into a hollow of snow and dead leaves up to his knees.
They waited five minutes longer, and Snap was on the point of going to Whopper's home when they saw the missing club member approaching on a run. "What in the world kept you so long?" cried Shep. "Oh, I had a little set-to with Barney Hedge," answered Whopper. "He said some things I didn't like and I rolled him over in the snow and put some down his back to help him cool off."
This time the remainder of the pack grew scared and vanished into the brushwood as if by magic. "They have gone!" cried Giant, excitedly. "I thought that would make 'em skip." "Don't be so sure about that," was Whopper's reply. "They may be watching us from behind the bushes. If they -I see one of them now!" "Let us give them another shot!"
There was an awkward pause, and then Shep and his chums moved on and plunged into the woods beyond the camp fire. "They are a real sociable bunch," was Whopper's sarcastic comment. "How I would love to stay with them!" "I'll wager they fight like cats and dogs," put in the doctor's son. "I don't believe they have one real pleasant day."
It was a telling blow, for by luck more than judgment it crushed the beast's skull. The attack on its mate caused the other wildcat to pause. Then, filled with a sudden fear, and failing to get at Whopper's throat, it commenced to retreat. "It's running away!" shouted Snap. "Kill it, Shep!" The doctor's son had been dancing around, trying to get in a shot without injuring Whopper.
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