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Updated: May 31, 2025
"Some folks who will give us all the help we want," said Snap, quick to understand the ruse his chum was playing. "How many people are up here?" asked the rich lumber dealer, nervously. "Oh, seven or eight," answered Whopper, but did not add that he was counting in Felps's own party. Behind a thick mass of brushwood rested the Snapper, as the boys' craft had been christened.
Where Serato found his man, no one knew, and the foreman would not tell; but a day or so later he appeared at the tunnel camp with an Indian so large in size that he made the others look like pygmies, and many of them were above the average in height, too. "Say, he's a whopper all right!" exclaimed Tom. "But he isn't as big or as strong as Koku." "He comes pretty near it," said Job Titus.
Then the boys discharged their guns again, and wounded two more birds. As the game came down they rushed in and wrung the necks of those not already dead. "Six, all told," said Giant proudly. "That's one and a half apiece." "Not so bad," answered Snap. "It's dandy!" shouted Whopper, throwing up his cap in his delight. "Now we can have roast partridge for dinner, and supper, too, if we want to."
Then the wild stories of bear fightings, beaver intelligence, Indian deviltry, and hairbreadth escapes, become intensely real. The auditor hangs upon each word which falls from the lips of the supposed sage orator with eager earnestness, while curiosity never becomes satisfied. "Ah! Jones, that is a whopper."
They were in a mass of brushwood, and this brushwood seemed to be floating on the water. All was pitch dark around them, for they had not come down straight, but in something of a zig-zag fashion. "Well, of all things!" came from Whopper. "Are we going down to the center of the earth?" "It looks like it." answered Giant, with a groan.
"Weigh him in his own scales," said Whopper, by way of some fun. "I wish I could send this fish home to my mother," said the small youth. "Wouldn't it make her eyes stick out, though!" "It certainly would, and some other folks would wonder, too," answered Shep. "But I don't see how you can do it."
"A gunshot," answered Whopper. "There goes another." After that they heard several more shots, coming from some point ahead. "Some other hunters must be out," said Snap. "Wonder who they can be?" They had reached a point directly between Firefly Lake and Lake Cameron when they came to a little patch of woods surrounding a pond less than a hundred feet across.
Get back!" All leaped out of danger and the next moment down came a mass of dirt, rocks and brushwood, scattering in all directions. The downfall left a hole all of two yards in diameter, and they could easily look out on the sky. "Hurrah!" cried Whopper. "This is how the young hunters escape from their underground dungeon cell!"
"I wouldn't sell you our ammunition at any price, and I don't think my friends care to either." "That's the talk," put in Shep. "You don't get anything out of us," murmured Giant. "Not by a jugful!" added Whopper. "Then you won't sell us any ammunition?" asked Vance Lemon, and his face grew as sour as the fruit his name represented. All of the young hunters shook their heads with vigor.
He and the doctor's son went ahead and Whopper followed. The rocks were even more slippery than they had anticipated. The doctor's son was about to advise going back and walking around the cliff, when Whopper called out: "A deer! I see a deer!" "Where?" asked the others in a breath. "Over yonder! I am going to give him a shot!"
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