Part 8 (2/2)
The whole affair transpired in about a minute, and the plucky lads next turned their attention to the peril that threatened the and tearing at the hole in the roof
Their lolling red tongues and white teeth glistened in the firelight
The rest of the pack yelped and scurried around the cabin, as though they knew that the feast would soon be ready
”We'll fix those fellows, never fear,” panted Jerry
He and Haht at the glaring eyes and hungry jaws
With a yelp of agony one of the brutes rolled froround The other was invisible when the smoke cleared; he must have leaped back upon the rock
The boys were cheered by their victory They reloaded their weapons and waited, keeping an eye on all vulnerable spots
”This will be soht,” said Brick
”Morning can't be o then”
But the brave lads were spared the horrors of a further siege All at once the wolves beca noise far back in the forest, led with a chorus of faint howls
The sound ca more andup a warning finger ”There goes another pack of wolves--after a deer or solad they're not headed this way”
”So am I,” assented Brick ”Hullo! what's up now?”
”The siege,” shouted Jerry, and the witticisave voice to the fading howls of their kindred, and then scurried off into the forest at full tear
For a tiood fortune Then, with thankful hearts, they pulled the sled away from the door, and crept out
The fire had burnt low, and they hurriedly stacked it with fresh fuel
Two dead wolves lay in the ravine, and the one inside the cabin ed down the hollow, and pitched into a gully between two rocks
”Let the I'll take the scalps off We'll get bounty for thehtness of the fire, the boys crept up the slope, and looked at the picked bones of the deer, and at the wolves that the catamount had killed
”Pretty clean work,” observed Hah The catamount may pounce on us at any minute There's the tree he jumped into”
”But he's not there now,” replied Jerry ”I think he's had enough of this locality, and won't trouble us anyback, either”
”There is, if the severe weather keeps up,” said Hamp, as they returned to the fire ”It wouldn't be a bad idea to cross the lake again, and do our hunting between Moosehead and Chesuhborhood is too near Canada and the home of the wolves for me”
”For me, too,” added Brick, uneasily
”Well, I don't suppose you felloant to ht,” declared Jerry ”We can talk about it in the ht ahead now”