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made all the haste possible, for he could
tell from the sound that the sportsman
was not very far away.
After another 10 minutes of walking
or wading, as he mentally put it Fred
stopped to listen for some sound which
would tell him the ' exact spot occupied
by his cousin. Then, fingers in mouth
he gave a long, loud whistle. It was iui
mediately answered by a whistle which
was peculiarly Johnny's own. In fact,
no other boy in the county could imitate
Johnny Brown's whistle-signal.
But the very moment after Fred's ear
caught the welcome call he was surprised
to hear Johnny's voice crying out lustily :
"Who comes there? I'm in danger. A
great bear has got me treed. If you are
not armed you'd best take to your heels
and bring help."
Fred stopped in his tracks. Treed by
a great bear? Why didn't he shoot?
Where was Johnny's nerve r Where were
his true eye and hand?
Paying no heed to the warning in his
eagerness, he went in the direction of the
voice, and soon saw a sight that made
him stop to catch his breath and summon
courage. There, directly in his path and
only a few feet away, was a huge black
bear. The creature was walking slowly
round and round a very slender tree, in
whose top was perched a dark form
which proved to be Johnny.
Johnny, who was on the watch for the
appearance of the owner of the whistle
signal, saw Fred as s,oon as he came near
to the spot of danger. "Go back, Fred,"
he cried out from his perch. "I'm safe
here till you can fetch father to kill this
beast that has the drop on me. And don't
speak, for I don't want you to have to go
up a tree. Then we'd be in a dandy fix,
we would. And so long as this old chap
has me to hold his attention he'll stay
right here. So, don't, rouse him by the
sound of your voice. Now, go away."
But this was not enough for Fred, who
was wondering what Johnny had done
with his gun. So, raising his hands as
if to take aim, he asked the question by
gesture. Johnny understood his cousin's
sign query and replied: "Well, I'll have
to confess that I took two shots at him
and missed. When I first saw him he
was coming at me with anything but a
friendly expression, so I up and let fly a
ball at his head. I didn't do myself
proud, for the old fellow wasn't touched.
Then I ran through the underbrush, get
ting out of his sight. I thought I'd lost
him, when, fully fifteen minutes after I'd
fired at him, he loomed up right in front
of me. I let him have my aim again, but
the bullet went wide of the mark once
more. It was all up with me then, for I
had to reload before I could take another
pull at him. He was pretty close to me,
but this tree was closer, so I came up
into its inviting limbs, where I decided
to wait until someone chanced to come
along, or till the old brute should tire of
walking about at the foot of my tower
and looking up savagely at me. As for
my gun, it's below there on the ground.
The old bear took a sniff of it a little bit
ago."
Fred had withdrawn from the path
into a clump of shrubbery, where he was
out of the bear's line of vision. He kept
one eye on old Mr. Bruin, however, fear
ing that his nose might tell him there
was another enemy near. And he took
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pains to be pretty close to a fine, strong
sapling with plenty of limbs close to the
ground. "Where's your ammunition?"
he called out to Johnny, regardless of
the latter's warning about his talking.
"It's on the ground in my wallet," said
Johnny. Then he added : "Don't do that
again, I tell you. Now, go as fast and as
quietly as you can for home and fetch
daddy here. I don't rest well astride
this limb. I'd find home and dinner more
to my taste."
But Fred had been thinking over some
plan whereby he might relieve his cou
sin's uncomfortable position more quickly
than by returning to the farm, some two
or three miles away, and was about to
act upon this quickly conceived plan.
He very cautiously gathered a handful
of dry bark and dead sticks from the
ground at his feet, cut a long branch from
a growing bush nearby and on its smaller
end tied the dried bark and sticks into a
thick mass, using his handkerchief in
lieu of a string. When this was fixed to
his satisfaction he took from his vest
pocket a match, struck it and applied the
flame to the broomlike end of the stick.
It ignited quickly, a blaze leaping up
ward. Like a flash of lightning Fred
made a dash toward the bear, whirling
the blazing stick round and round, its
tongue of fire forming a huge circle of
flame in the revolution. The old bear's
eyes widened with fear as he beheld the
awful sight, and he went off through the
woods as fast as he could. But in his
excitement he did not select his path and
found himself entangled in a massive
grapevine, through whose meshes he
could not go. And as he feared to turn
back and face that dreadful thing of fire
he kept on trying to thrust his huge
body through the trap which held him
fast.
"Quick, your gun! Load and fire!"
cried Fred, still brandishing the blazing
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