We'll write to that man, as you suggested, and when Dave finds he can't catch any birds, he'll get discouraged and leave us a clear field.
But first I want to touch up Don and Bert Gordon a little to pay them for the way they treated me this evening.

That shooting-box shall be laid in ashes this very night.

I expected an invitation to shoot there last spring, but I didn't get it, and now I am determined that they shall never ask anybody there.

What do you say ?" "I say, I'm your man," replied Bob.
And so the thing was settled.

Lester put his horse in the barn, went in to supper, which was announced in a few minutes (Bob found opportunity before he sat down to the table to purloin a box of matches, which he put carefully away in his pocket), and when the meal was over, the two boys went back to the wagon-shed, where they sat and talked until it began to grow dark.