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"We must get that second one!" cried Snap, and fired once more. But the wounded duck had reached the cover of some bushes and was not hit again. The rowboat was hastily turned in the direction and Snap and Whopper leaped ashore. Then the duck tried to fly but a shot from Whopper's firearm laid it low. Soon the boys had both ducks on board and were examining the game.
And having thus delivered himself he shook his heavy cane at them, turned on his heel, and walked, away. "He's a gentleman, I must say," declared Snap, when Mr. Spink was out of hearing. "A person can easily see where Ham gets his arrogant ways." "Yes, and he'll stick up for Ham first, last and all the time," added Whopper.
"Must be gittin' lazy, to be on their perches so late in the morning," observed Jed. "Ought to have been scratchin' fer a livin' hours ago." "Well, this suits us," answered Whopper. "I'm going to try for the gobbler." "I'll take the one below him," said Snap. "I'll take the hen on the left," came from Giant. "And I'll try for the one on the right," put in Shep. "What will you shoot at, Jed?"
The report of the gun had reached Giant and Whopper, and they came up on the run, fearing something serious had occurred. "We walked along the shore for almost quarter of a mile," said Whopper, "but we didn't see a blessed thing that looked like the boat. I am afraid it's gone for good." "If it is we'll have to go home, and that will be the end of this outing," answered Shep.
The drawing was at once made, and it fell to Snap to go with the small youth. The cameras and guns were taken from the rowboat and also a few other things. Then the doctor's son and Whopper aided the others in getting the boat into the rushing river once more. "Take care of yourselves!" cried Shep. "If all goes right you'll get to the lake long before we do."
"What's what?" "That noise below." "I don't hear anything." "I do, and I am going down to see what is doing." Whopper began to descend and the smaller youth followed him. "Well, I never!" "Wolves!" "Yes, and look at the number!" The words were true. Under the tree a number of wolves had congregated. There were at least twenty-five or thirty of them, and they were all of good size.
Then it fell into the water and was quickly lost to sight. "Is -is he gone?" gasped Whopper. "Yes," answered Giant. "Shep finished him." "That was no joke," said Snap, when he could speak. He was trembling from head to foot. "A joke? Well, I reckon not!" spluttered Whopper. "Ugh! It makes me shiver to think about it." "Let us get out of here," came from Snap.
"That's correct I saw him too," put in Giant, who had followed Snap. In the meantime Whopper had followed Shep, and both were doing what they could for the old woman. "See here, Snap Dodge, I don't want you to talk to me," blustered Carl Dudder. "I know my own business." "You ought to be knocked down for throwing at Mammy Shrader." "You can't knock me down!" growled Carl, doubling up his fists.
"I think it is yonder," answered Snap, and pointed at right angles to the direction Shep had mentioned. "And I think it is about between the two," finished Whopper. "Let us take the course Whopper thinks is right," said Snap. "We can't be so very far wrong anyway." Anxious to get back to camp and get some rest, they pulled with vigor.
"We are surely fixing for a storm." "By the way, Shep," came from Snap, "don't you wish you had shot a turkey instead of the deer?" "Don't say turkeys," replied the doctor's son, reproachfully. They had brought the deer close to the spot where the rowboat had been tied up, and now Whopper went to get the craft. Soon he returned in anxiety. "Didn't we tie up here?" he questioned.
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