"I'll warrant that if we visit those traps we set yesterday, we'll not find a single bird in them.

Don and Bert are hauling them in by dozens." "So much the better for us," returned his companion.

"Every quail they catch makes it just so much easier for us to earn seventy-five dollars apiece." Bob, feeling somewhat mollified by this view of the case, turned his attention to Don and his brother, who, having visited all their traps by this time, climbed into the wagon and drove toward home..