There is not one among them who is willing to face again the rifle of the Great Bear." Willet smiled with satisfaction at the compliment.

He was proud of his sharp-shooting, and justly so, but he said modestly: "I had a fair target, and it will do for a warning.

I think we can look for another long rest now." The dark period that precedes the dawn came, and then the morning flashed over the woods.

Robert, from the hollow, looking across the far shore, saw lofty, wooded hills and back of them blue mountains.

Beads of rain stood on the leaves, and the wilderness seemed to emerge, fresh and dripping, from a glorious bath.