Four Boy Hunters; Or, The Outing of the Gun Club

. The place was composed of the saw mill proper and half a dozen sheds used for the storage of cut lumber

unners and covered the distance in a few minutes, Shep and Snap arriving the

en formed to throw buckets of water taken from the river on the flames. Some men were br

water came along swiftly, but for a long time it looked as if the whole plant was doomed to destruction. The fire was in a shed next to the sa

!" cried one of the men. "C

he master of the mill. "Pe

s were dropping over them, and once Snap's shirt sleeve caught fire, while She

re was kept largely to the shed in which it had started. The mill itself caught a dozen times, but the flames were extinguished before they did material damage. Finally the wind veered around, blowing the spark

id Snap to Shep, and they walked to the edge of the stream, fo

opper. "Gosh, what a blaze! I thought the whole county was goi

ant. "Say, but didn't the edge of the bucket feel nice o

e of the fire. They found the mill master, Tom

cal do it?" aske

I came back to put out the blaze. I made up my mind it would be better

lain, father

ho started

d the boy, while several o

llow had thrown a pile of shavings and saturated it with oil. As he ran away he

way. He knew the men around here would try to

llain to do such a thing, for it might have been the m

at the desk, Mr.

ooking for money or

get an

Mr. Neefus knows. Th

eli

ire had swept all around it. It was quite hot, but after some more

wasn't hot enough to touch them," s

zing into a small co

brow co

overed?" questioned

so those papers to that tr

y? How mu

red and fif

aid you had the safe

dg

ve opened it and then shut it up

particulars of the robbery. It was learned that the man who had perpetrated the deed was a tall, slim individual who limped with his left foot wh

t, but without success. Mr. Dodge and the other men of the concern were very much worried, but could do nothing further. The county authorities appeared to be he

pany had had a dispute with another lumber concern over the right to cut timber in a locality known as the Spur Road. The Barnaby Company had certain

m I shouldn't mind the loss of the money so much, although thre

pers to the Felps Lumber C

that--although they are very, very bitter against us. They can't get any more timber to cut around here, an

r boys from speaking of the proposed outing for several days. But as soon a

nough, for they had gone out in a similar fashion when boys, and thought it would do their sons good, but with Frank's folks it was differ

ung." After that the widow said no more, and so it was settled, so far as Giant was concerned. Then the three boys talked the matter over with Whop

id. "But I do hope they don't run

to be able to get along. Mr. Dodge told me privately he was going to have old Jed Sanborn keep

s far as Lake Cameron in a rowboat belonging to the Dodges, and from there "tote" their outfit to wherever

h youth had an extra set of underwear and some socks. Each carried a pair of sh

few vegetables, some fresh and others canned. For cooking purposes they had a "nest" of pots and pans, of th

fle belonging to Mr. Dodge and a pistol loaned to them by Dr. Reed. Each

ing at the collection. "Now all we want is those rubber blankets

oned Whopper. "It seems to me there is a

"But what I am thinking of is, what a job we'll

make two trips instead of one,"