The first load be carried swiftly through the woods until be came to a thicket where he hoped he would find concealment.
Then he had gone back for the other half of the clothing.

This, upon arrival at the thicket, Ted dropped in on top of the first installment.
"Now, I guess I ought to hide somewhere where there won't be the least danger of them finding me.

Then I can see the fun when those fellows come ashore," chuckled Teall.

"Hold on, though! There's one more debt to pay.

That confounded Hi Martin called the South Grammar a 'mucker' school.