CHAPTER X.
A BEAR HUNT.
"I'll jest do it, an' it's the luckiest thing in the world that I thought of it.

That will make me wuth--" here he stopped and counted his fingers--"twenty-two dollars and two bits, anyhow.

Then my clothes, an' stockings, an' shoes, an' all the powder an' lead I want this winter, won't cost me nothing; so I shall be rich fur all that thar mean Dave is workin' so hard agin me." It was Dan Evans who talked thus to himself, and he was standing behind the cabin, with his hands in his pockets, and looking at Don's pointer, just as he was the last time we saw him.

He was so very much delighted with certain plans he had determined upon that that he did not dare meet his brother again just then, for fear that the expression of joy and triumph which he knew his face wore would attract David's notice and put him on his guard.

So he remained in the rear of the cabin with his thoughts for company, until his mother came home.