"
"What is that?"
"That you take some letters home for us and deliver them as soon
as you arrive."
"All right, we'll do that," said Carl Dudder.
The trade was made on the spot, and the letters written; and on the
following morning Ham Spink and his cronies left the vicinity of
Firefly Lake. It was the last our friends saw of the dudish youth
and his friends for some time to come.
"I think he feels sick all over," remarked Shep, after the other
crowd had departed.
"He certainly isn't in high spirits," commented Snap.
"I'll wager a new cap against a balloon that they tell everybody in
town they shot those partridge and the rabbits," came from Giant.
"Sure thing!" exclaimed Whopper. "And they'll say they shot about
a thousand other things besides. I know 'em. They can all blow
to beat the band when they want to."
On the following Monday it was clear and cool, and the boys set
out to look at their beaver traps, of which three had been placed
in position. To their delight, two of the traps held beavers;
and to their astonishment, the third trap held a muskrat.
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