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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.
Shep made a fresh batch of bread dough and also prepared a pot of beans and baked a plain cake. He likewise tried his hand at an apple pie, but the crust was not right, and later on, when the pie was tested, Whopper said the "lid" might do for a shingle but not for eating. The cake, however, turned out well, and all of the young hunters praised it.
"I hadn't any idea this was here," was the comment of the doctor's son. "Wonder who it can belong to?" "Perhaps some hunters put it up in days gone by," returned Whopper. "It doesn't look as if it was inhabited." "Let's go in and take a look around," suggested Shep. It was his delight to poke around in new and odd places. "We don't want to lose time," was his chum's reply.
They looked around the temporary camp, to make certain that nothing had been left behind, then entered the rowboat and shoved off. Snap and Whopper took the oars, and soon they were on the journey up Lake Cameron to Firefly Lake. "Don't forget one thing," said Snap shortly after starting. "If possible we want to bring down some sort of game for dinner.
"No, to capture him alive, and turn him over to the circus folks for that reward." "What is the idea?" "Let us dig a big pit here among the rocks and bait it with the two dead wildcats. We can drag the wildcats on the ground around here and to the pit, and maybe the lion will follow the trail up and fall into the pit." "He'll be very obliging if he does that," said Whopper with a laugh.
"If that crowd should take it into their heads to go to Lake Narsac I hope they don't camp near us," went on Snap, after a pause. "They'll try to bother us all they can, you can rest assured, of that," said Whopper. "They seem to live for nothing else." "Well, we can give them as good as they send, can't we?" asked Giant. "I'm not afraid of 'em."
"Maybe Giant and Whopper are in trouble," said the doctor's son. They ran out on the ice and then around the bend, to find those who had been fishing running toward them. "We just saw some big game," panted Giant. "Get the rifle and the shotguns!" "What game?" queried Snap. "At least a dozen deer, big ones," answered Whopper. "Oh, hurry. We'll never get such a chance again!"
This made the rope slack, or loose, and then the creature could shake the knot of the rope out from under its leg. "There it goes!" cried Ted, as the turtle swam away. "Oh, what a whopper! It's bigger than the big muskrat!" "Your muskrat didn't give you a ride Ted, and my turtle gave me a fine one," said Jan. "But I can't sail my boat any more." "Well, we'll have to empty out some of the water.
The miner said that the bottom of the cave was covered with gold nuggets, just covered with them, dad." "And he gave us one of the nuggets, a whopper!" broke in Bud. "And your mothers were foolish enough to believe such an improbable tale and to send you here on such a wildgoose chase!" and something that began to look very much like anger darkened Mr. Conroyal's face.
Then they took to the trail Shep had followed, until they came to a bit of a clearing. "Oh my! look there!" ejaculated Giant, suddenly. "Come back of the bushes, quick, before they see you!" Having hauled his companions behind the bushes, he pointed to a spot beyond one end of the lake. "I don't see anything," said Snap. "I do!" cried Whopper. "Some deer!"
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