The question is, could
it have been a bear?"
"Let us look around for tracks," put in Giant, and got down on
his hands and knees. The others began the hunt also, and soon
they came upon some large tracks, leading deep into the woods
and up the rocks beyond.
"It was certainly a bear," said Snap, and now his voice had something
of seriousness in it. "Boys, I must say I don't like this."
"No more do I," answered Shep. "Why, that bear might have killed
us all while we slept!"
"It's queer he didn't visit us," put in Giant.
"I don't know but what he did," said Snap. "Perhaps he woke me
up and then ran away. I certainly heard something or felt something."
"This is enough to give one the creeps," was Whopper's comment. "I
don't want to sleep where there are bears to crawl over one."
"Somebody will have to remain on guard after this until we get
some sort of a shelter built," said Shep, and so it was agreed.
"I am going to build a bear trap, too," said Giant. "An old hunter
from the West was telling me of the kind some Indians make.
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