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"Nor I," put in Whopper. "Gosh! He was about a hundred feet long! And did you see the eyes? Regular electric eyes!" "Phew! It takes Whopper to tell the plain truth," said Snap, with a grin. "But he was bad enough, I admit," he continued. "If he hadn't been I shouldn't have legged it as I did." "Don't forget that we are out after the deer," said Giant, after the excitement had somewhat died away.
As they did this one of the wildcats suddenly opened its eyes and looked around. On the instant it let out a cry of rage and its back commenced to bristle. Then the other wildcat leaped from the tree to the ground and crouched as if for a spring. "Fire!" came the command from the doctor's son, but this was not necessary, for both Snap and Whopper blazed away as quickly as they could.
Snap, Whopper and Tommy did this latter work, and while it was going on Shep and Giant got together some flat stones and built something of a fireplace and a stove, not far from the tent's entrance. Then they cut firewood and soon had a generous blaze started and put the kettle on to boil.
"We must help them out! My! how the wind is blowing!" The increase in wind was rapid and by the time Snap and Shep drew close to where Whopper and Giant were still floundering, it carried the loose snow around in a perfect whirlwind. "Can't you crawl out?" asked Snap, coming as close as he dared. "Every time we try we seem to sink deeper!" gasped Giant.
"You believe," I persisted, "that whopper of Maui roping the sun like a wild steer, and that other whopper of heaving up the sky from off the earth?" "I am of little worth, and am not wise, O Lakana," my fisherman made answer.
"We'll fix up some sort of shelter among the trees," he said. "And we can build a fire against that rock. Let us get to work at once, before it grows colder and the snow gets worse." The brief respite had rested them, and while Whopper and Giant cut some wood and built a fire, Snap and Shep broke down some spruce branches and piled them up around the clump of trees.
"That's easy enough to say. But look at the snow." Whopper looked beyond the shelter. The snow had stopped coming down but it lay to the depth of several inches in some spots and in drifts three and four feet high in others. He gave a sigh. "Tough traveling and no mistake. Maybe we can't get through at all!" "I know what I am going to do, first of all," said Shep.
"And we don't want to go back without that bear," put in Shep. "No, indeed!" cried Giant. "It cost us too much trouble to get a shot at him." "Wonder what became of the other bear?" mused Whopper. "Oh, he ran away," said Shep. "More than likely we'll never see him again."
"He's a coward," was Giant's comment. "I wish I had got a whack at him. He is much larger than I am, but I am not afraid of him." While this scene was transpiring Shep and Whopper had helped old Mammy Shrader to a seat on the porch of a house not far from where she had gone down. The old woman complained of a pain in her side and it was next to impossible for her to take another step.
Just then another overripe tomato came whizzing over the rowboat. Had not Whopper ducked his head he must have been struck. "Wait, I'll give them a dose of shot!" cried Whopper, reaching down into the boat as if to take a gun. As a matter of fact, the boys had brought no weapons with them. "Hi! hi! Don't you dare to shoot!" roared Ham Spink, in terror. "Don't shoot!
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