xclaimed Snap, as the cry fr

Lundy was running away, in the di

ied Whopper, and dropped to the gro

if somebody was in great trouble. Hadn

by Pop Lundy?"

hep. "If I can help a la

wed. To get to the back door of the farmhouse they had to pass around a chicken house and a

heard the farmer cry, as

the four boys saw that the farmer's wife l

guess!" moaned Simon Lundy

who had assisted his father on more than one oc

kin look in

und something that was beneficial. Yet it was several minutes be

urmured. "Take him a

n' about, Jane?" de

, is it you? Why did

ng whelps up an apple tree. Bu

eat, and then he got saucy and he picke

sprang to the mantelpiece. "It'

nap. "He jumped that fence

hopper. "He was running

did h

e thought he might h

not been harmed, on

road and gazed up a

the

nuthin'," s

e road a bit, fello

armer, anxiously. "I--er--I won'

be back," an

down for some trace of the negro, but without success. They knew he

ared and asked for Mr. Lundy. She had told him her husband was out, and then the colored man had wanted something to eat. She had refused to give him anyth

a valuable on

. I wouldn't take a hundred dollars fer it nohow. I was mighty careless to leave it on t

u do about it

tell the constable, I gue

Giant. "And, by the way, we had better be get

you a quarter for tho

farmer. He was so upset over the loss of

asurer of the expedition. Then, after a few words more, the young hunters hurrie

r's comment. "To take that money af

ck," said Giant. "That nigger will shake the dust

--go to a lonely farmhouse and make sure the men are away and then take what they can lay hands on. If

forcing their way through the bushes.

ere we left the boat?"

so," answ

I don't

Whopper, who was in the re

gazed up and down the shore in alarm. Not

floated off?" s

too. There is the exact spot," and he pointed out a stout bush.

ze of those footprints--as big as canal-boats

th our boat!" came in a

boat. He saw it was well filled with things and jumped in, and I suppose he rowed off as fast as he co

ked at each other blankly. For some seconds no

ind the boat--

home and give up the

't want to

ame from t

o it," said Snap. "I don't believe he went up

t another boat

s the

t another boat

farmhouse and met P

oin' down the river," sai

d what became o

ha

boat and ran

sky rascal, though! Wot be ye

possible, and follow him. Do yo

he next one down from mine. I'll go along

er to the next farm. Ike Welby was not at home, but his wife said they could ha

should have fainted dead away, too, and he would have gott

ry mighty hard," an

well as pleasure, for in his younger days Ike Welby had been quite an oarsman and had won more than one race. T

Shep. "We must try to spot that nigg