"
"We have nothing to sell to you," was the cold reply.
"We might make a trade," put in Shep. "We have got some plump
partridge and rabbits to spare."
"Humph! Are you saying that just to tease us?"
"Not at all. Here are the rabbits and the partridge, too," and the
doctor's son held them up.
Now, as it happened, Ham Spink and his cronies were very anxious
to take some game home, but had nothing but one rabbit and a little
squirrel. They gazed longingly at the plump game Shep exhibited.
"Let us take them," whispered Dick Bush. "Nobody will know how we
got them."
At this Ham Spink's eyes brightened. He was not above telling an
untruth when he felt like it.
"What will you take for what you have?" he called out.
"What have you got?"
The rival campers looked over such provisions as they had left, and
enumerated the articles---sugar, cocoa, flour, some canned goods,
and some preserves. Snap and his chums went ashore and investigated.
"We'll trade even," said Snap at last, after talking with his
chums. "But on one condition.
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