Godfrey Evans could not have driven them away by imitating the growl of a wild animal.

They welcomed the newcomer with their bugle-like notes, and were answered by a chorus of angry yelps from the rest of the pack, which had been shut up in the barn and were to be left behind.
"Now, I call this rather a formidable expedition," said Don, as David came up.

"If that bear is there to-day I wouldn't take a dollar for my chance of shooting him.

One bullet and three loads of buckshot will be more than he can carry away with him.

Here are the axes to build the trap with, if we don't find him on the island; there's a bag of corn for bait, an auger to bore the holes and the pins with which to fasten the logs together.