"He'll take a
piece out of you yet."
Making a surly response Sam slipped down from the roof and disappeared
into the house.
"Gee!" exclaimed Pepper. "I am glad I didn't walk in on them. Now,
I wonder what is going on here?"
From a large chimney, which was built at the back of the cabin,
which was nearest Pepper, the smoke from a wood fire was rising,
and there was an unpleasant odor in the air.
"That must be the smoke we saw from the river the other day,"
concluded Pepper. "I wonder what they are cooking there? I can't
say I like the smell of it, whatever it is, and I don't think this
is any good place for me, either."
Slipping back as quietly as he had come, Pepper started on his
away again. When he had gotten far enough from the place so that,
he thought, it would not attract the attention of those there,
Pepper sounded a call on his bugle.
"Perhaps the boys are out looking for me when I didn't get back
on time," he said, sounding the call from time to time as he went
on, but which brought no response.
"Thank goodness! I've got to the end of the woods," he exclaimed
a little later, when he saw an open space not far ahead of him.
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