But I was lucky enough to knock him out at last." "Then why does your face look like a huge piece of pickled beef ?" asked the incorrigible Warner mischievously.
"You wait and I'll make yours look the same!" retorted Dick.
"Shut up," said Colonel Winchester.

"If I catch you two fighting I may have you both shot as an example." Dick and Warner grinned good-naturedly at each other.

They knew that Colonel Winchester did not dream of carrying out such a threat, and they knew also that they had no intention of fighting.
"And after you knocked him out what happened ?" asked the colonel.
Dick looked sheepish.
"He lay so still I was afraid he was dead," he replied.

"I ran down to a brook, filled my cap with water, and returned with it in the hope of reviving him.

I got there just in time to see him vanishing in the bushes.