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The Boy Trapper

CHAPTER XVII
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Now the next thing is something else; we must make up a story to tell my folks when we get home." "Can't we run back to the house and go to bed before any of the family are up ?" "I am afraid to try it.

A better plan would be to go back in the woods and build a fire and get warm.

Then we'll go home, and if anybody asks us where we have been, we'll say we couldn't sleep, and so we got up and went 'coon-hunting." "I wish we had one or two 'coons to back up the story," said Lester.
"O, that wouldn't help us any.

People often go hunting and return empty-handed, you know." Leaving Bob and his friend to get out of their difficulties as best they can, we will go back to Godfrey's cabin and see what the two boys who live there are doing.

The day of rest, which Don said would work such wonders in David, did not seem to be of much benefit to him after all.


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