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Rah!" yelled the scouts, jumping to their feet. "Rah! Rah! Rah! Lieutenant Denmead!" "Kree-kree-eee!" shrilled the Hawks. "How-ooo-ooo! Yap-yap-yap! Skee-eee-eee!" barked and squealed the others. As the Scout Master raised his hand, silence fell upon the company again. "The plan for the two weeks of study is only preliminary," the lieutenant continued.
Every few moments he pointed his little black nose up at the round, yellow moon and barked. Way over across the broad White Meadows, which in summer time are green, you know, in the dooryard of Farmer Brown's house, Bowser the Hound sat and barked at the moon, too. "Yap-yap-yap," barked Reddy Fox, as loud as he could. "Bow-wow-wow," said Bowser the Hound in his deepest voice.
Now Bowser did not like to be made fun of any more than little boys and girls do, and he made up his mind that if ever he could break his chain, or that if ever Farmer Brown forgot to chain him up, he would teach Reddy Fox a lesson that Reddy would never forget. "Yap-yap-yap," barked Reddy Fox, and then listened to hear Bowser's deep voice reply. But this time there was no reply.
Now way off on the hill behind the White Meadows Mother Fox had been hunting for her supper. She had heard the "Yap-yap-yap" of Reddy Fox as he barked at the moon, and she had heard Bowser baying over in the barnyard of Farmer Brown. Then she had heard the "yap" of Reddy Fox cut short in the middle and the roar of Bowser's big voice as he started to chase Reddy Fox.
Voices came to him that he had not heard before the sharp yap-yap-yap of a fox, the unearthly, laughing cry of a great Northern loon on a lake half a mile away, the scream of a lynx that came floating through miles of forest, the low, soft croaks of the nighthawks between himself and the stars. He heard strange whisperings in the treetops whisperings of the wind.
But his five minutes lasted for an hour, and still the lad lay fast asleep. A large gray fox stole up and smelt the rabbit. "That'll just suit me," said he to himself. "I'll go and call my brothers and sisters, and we'll kill this two-legged creature and steal his rabbit." "Yap-yap-yap!" barked the fox, and soon he had a whole pack round him.
Yap-yap-yap!" he laughed; "this eating has put the joyousness of a Pup into my heart." That night they crossed the river at another ford, and slept in a bluff of slim-bodied white poplars, for they were on the edge of the North timber lands. "This is good cover," muttered A'tim, as he raked the yellow heart-shaped leaves of the poplar together for a bed.
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