With his back against a pine tree Captain Cy dozed peacefully.
He awoke with a jump.

Something had awakened him, but he did not know what.

He blinked and gazed about him.

Then he heard a faint scream.
"Uncle!" screamed Bos'n.

"O--o--o--h! Uncle Cyrus, help me! Come quick!" The next moment the captain was plunging through the scrub of huckleberry and bayberry bushes, bumping into pines and smashing the branches aside as he ran in the direction of the call.
Back of the pine grove was a big inclosed pasture nearly a quarter of a mile long.