At Whispering Pine Lodge

ch-and-Go St

e grubs out of those old rotten stumps we passed at the time we rested, an hour back. Huh! just like Slippery Steve to get out of the hard work we've going to

e trout out of that c-c-creek, where it looked so s-s-shallow just back there. He's m-m-meaning to w-w-wade

hanty. I chose this place partly on account

t me handle the hatchet, because you see I was such a truthful little shaver a

than they knew when they j-j-just let it g-g-go at regrets

e began to swing the sharp-edged hatchet, and cut down some of the required brush

ubtless suggested such a nickname to his schoolmates, there were two others busily engaged in gathe

was Max Hastings, and on numberless occasions he had shown an aptitude for "doing things" when the occasion arose, that gained him the respect of his chums. For a comple

nks with his manner of speech. As the reader has already discovered, Toby was fain to stutter in the most agonizing fashion. When one of these fits came upon him he would get red in the face, and show the greatest diff

ness, which after all is only caused by ne

s soon as he heard Max say they had gone far enough on their way. Steve, being one of those hasty lads who do a thing while many people would

on the Evergreen River, and near which we have seen them in the earlier b

, nor for that matter a regular camp where summer guests were entertained. The difficulties to be encountered along this "carry" were so great that ordinary excursioni

venture into this section of the wilderness without a guide along; so perhap

y were well agreed that their present undertaking far exceeded everything else that

en the School Directors agreed, after the summer was half over, that the school buildings required considerable alterations in order to make them sanitary for the coming winter; and really a special providence that watches over

half the work they should, because of the annoyance of having so many children trotting around, and bothering them. And the teachers were almost distracted on account o

some two weeks would do far less harm to the scholars than a continuation of these interrupti

urther indulge this propensity, especially at the most glorious time of the whole year, when the nut crop was coming on, the trees turning red and yellow

ul of periods in all their checkered careers, a thing happened that s

on would be fashioned into a shelter capable of shedding even a moderate amount of rain, we may be able

look at the darker side of things; and doubtless being unusually tired, after a hard day's tramp, with s

iving stakes into the ground, "is that I hope we haven't come all the way up here on a reg'lar fool's errand. It'd cost Mrs. Hopewell a pretty good sum, and be a real disappointment to her, if af

a regular old g-g-granny, that's what, with all your d-d-dismal p-p-prophesies. Tell me, d-d-did we ever f-f-fail yet in anything we undertook? C-c-course we haven't. Right in the start we found all those b-b

was afraid he'd never amount to much anyhow; so what did he do but make a most extraordinary will; at least, everybody who's heard about that proviso says so. I heard

could show that he had doubled that amount, besides earning his own living, why he was to come into two-thirds of his uncle's fortune. Some of our Carson people who know folks over

m the scene. That was almost two years ago; and from that day nobody in Sagamore has ever had a peep at him. The fact is he might almost be dead. Once his other aunt, Mr

if he meant to show up and c-c-claim his f-f-fine f-f-fortune. And all she could make out was that the p-p-postmark on the

though no one else thought he'd ever amount to anything, because he used to like to wander around in the woods all the while, or go fishing, instea

r the good old soul is in great fear that the second year will soon be finished, and unless Roland is able to show four thousand dollars in cash, most of the estate will go to his older cousin, Frederick. Mrs. Hopewell dislikes this chap very much, because she says he is a bad man, who drinks, and gambles, and does

overed considerable of the ground, and explained just how it came that

n once more to the work that had been undertake

un, I didn't make out what he said. Mebbe now he struck a whopper of a trout, and was giving

jumping to his feet. "D-d-didn't i

pened to Steve, because he's always getting himself in trouble. Come alo

ould plainly detect something approaching agony in th