If more shocks come
that are as bad as that one was, we're not apt to get much sleep
to-night, boys."
"Then here's hoping they'll stay away," wished Bud. "Why, a few
more shocks like that would start all my joints loose, I do believe!
Could that have been a meteor bursting, do you think, Hugh?"
"Well, that's a new idea," admitted the other, "and one that didn't
come to me, I'll own up. A meteor can fall at any old time, day
or night, though we only see them shooting after dark sets in.
When one of these fragments of fused metal and slag does rush
toward the earth and bury itself in the ground, it makes just
such a brilliant flash. Some say there is a fearful crash when
it strikes. Stranger things have happened, I take it, Bud, than
to believe that was a falling meteor of a pretty good size."
"But don't shooting stars generally fall in the summer time, Hugh?"
questioned Bud.
It had become a habit with most of the scouts to ask the Wolf
leader any and all sorts of questions, as though he might be looked
upon as a walking encyclopedia or dictionary; and it kept Hugh
pretty busy accumulating information in order to be well posted for
these constant demands on his time and patience.
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