"Why didn't you shoot?" cried Shep to Snap.
"Why didn't you?"
"I didn't have my gun ready," came from Whopper.
"Neither did I," added Giant.
The four young hunters gazed at each other sheepishly enough. Their
long tramp had been all in vain.
"We're a lot of doughheads," grumbled Shep. "Come all the way for
those deer and then-----Oh, say, let's go back home!"
"I wasn't thinking the deer would come this way," said Snap. "But
this proves the truth of Jed Sanborn's words. He told me when I
went hunting I must be ready for a shot all the time."
There was an awkward silence. The boys were bitterly chagrined.
"Can't we follow them up again?" asked Giant.
"Not to-night," answered Whopper. "They may go several miles before
they stop. They got so close to us that they were thoroughly scared.
My, what an opportunity we lost for bagging at least four of them!"
"We better not tell anybody of this experience," said Whopper. "If we
do, everybody will have the laugh on us."
It was growing dark already and they thought the best they could do
would be to go down to the lake and row back to camp.
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