CHAPTER XVI.
DON'S HOUNDS TREE SOMETHING.
Lester and his companion followed the wagon at a safe distance and saw it driven to the negro quarters, which were located about half a mile below the General's house.

It stopped in front of one of the cabins, and Don and Bert began the work of transferring the quails from the coop to the building in which they were to remain until they were sent up the river.

Bob and Lester counted the number of trips they made between the wagon and the door of the cabin, and made a rough estimate of the number of birds they had caught that morning.
"They've got at least a hundred," said Lester, when the wagon was driven toward the house, "and that is just one-sixth of the number they want.

At that rate that beggar Dave will be rich in a week more." "Not if we can help it!" exclaimed Bob, angrily.

"That cabin will burn as well as the shooting-box did!" "But we don't want to do too much of that sort of work," answered Lester.