What he did after he got there they could not find out.

They would always wait an hour or two to see if he came out again, and then they would grow tired of doing nothing, and spend the rest of the day searching the woods and brier-patches in the neighborhood of the cabin, in the hope of finding some of David's traps.

But they never found a single one, for the reason that they were all set on the General's plantation, and the boys never thought of looking there for them.
"It's my opinion," said Lester, one day, when the two were seated at a camp-fire in the woods, broiling a brace of squirrels which Bob had shot, "that David has given it up as a bad job and left the way clear for us." "Hurrah!" shouted Bob.
"Well--yes; but I'd hurrah louder if he had only set a dozen or two traps and given us a chance to rob them.

If he'd done that, we might have had a hundred birds on hand now.

The best thing we can do is to set our own traps and catch the quails as fast as we can.