. The hero of Pigeon Camp, or, How Lucci made good, by Martha James . a wild cat, but Im going to get it out,whatever it is. I think perhaps if we were dead still, hewent on, it might come out again. So saying he threw himself flat on his 26 THE HERO OF. PIGEON CAMP stomach, followed by Lucci, and the pairpeered anxiously at the hole wherein Jimmiehad seen the queer head, but the animal re-fused to make its appearance and after wait-ing a reasonable length of time Jimmie andLucci arose, crept down the embankment andstood directly in front of the hole. Then Jimmie poked his stick around asfar a
. The hero of Pigeon Camp, or, How Lucci made good, by Martha James . a wild cat, but Im going to get it out,whatever it is. I think perhaps if we were dead still, hewent on, it might come out again. So saying he threw himself flat on his 26 THE HERO OF. PIGEON CAMP stomach, followed by Lucci, and the pairpeered anxiously at the hole wherein Jimmiehad seen the queer head, but the animal re-fused to make its appearance and after wait-ing a reasonable length of time Jimmie andLucci arose, crept down the embankment andstood directly in front of the hole. Then Jimmie poked his stick around asfar as he could, but not a sound was heard. Lucci had provided himself with a stoutbranch and he, too, tried prodding the deep-est recesses of that hole, but all to no pur-pose. It must be a woodchuck, said Jimmie;if I had water Id flood him out. Why! I dont believe theres a thing inthat hole alive, replied Lucci. He never could stand all this saying, he made one fierce thrust whensuddenly, with a bound, Mr. Woodchuckwas out of the hole before their very WITH A BOUND. MR. WOODCHUCK WAS OUT OF THE HOLE. Page 26. THE FIRST DAY 27 Catch him! Catch him! youve got him!shouted Lucci, as Jimmie darted after thewoodchuck. But the wild things of thewoods can outrun the swiftest lad in Chris-tendom. It was a short, swift race with thewoodchuck over the rocks, and he was lostin a thicket of underbrush almost before theyknew it. He got away, panted Jimmie, butwouldnt I just like to catch one! What would you do with it, Jimmie 1 Well, if it was a young one Id try totame it. Tame a woodchuck? Yes, I think it would be lots of fun. They had started to walk leisurely back tothe Camp and were within sight of the lakewhen Lucci stooped suddenly and picked upsomething small and bright that glistened onthe ground at his feet. A gold pin! exclaimed Jimmie, and it 28 THE HERO OF PIGEON CAMP looks as if it had been here quite a while. He brushed the mud away and passed thepin to Jimmie, wh
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