The chimney had fallen upon it and it was completely ruined.
"Godfrey means to put a stop to all our fun if he can, doesn't he ?" said Bert, who thought that a man who would steal a canoe and spring a trap, would be guilty of any meanness.
"Let's go home," was Don's reply.

"We'll have another shooting-box here some day, Bert, and it will beat the old one all to pieces." The boys thought they had had hard luck that day, and so did their father, when he had heard their story; but they came very near having worse luck that night, and they never knew anything about it until several days afterward.

The General found it out the next morning.
He went to the fields at an early hour, as he always did, to set his negroes at work, and was met by the hostler, who had an exciting piece of news to communicate.

"Misser Gordon," said he, "Misser Don's hound dogs done treed two fellers down dar in de quarter.

Dey's been dar all de blessed night top o' dat ar house; yes, sar, dat's what dey says, sar!" The General replied that if the two fellows had come there for the purpose of stealing, he was glad of it, and said he would go and take a look at them.