Bert and I worked in the shop last night until ten o'clock, making those pins.

I think we have everything we wan't, so we'll be off." The canoe having been hauled alongside the wharf, and the articles which Don had enumerated being packed away in it, the hounds jumped in and curled themselves up in the bow, David took his place at the oars and the brothers found comfortable seats in the stern.
Altogether it was a heavy load the little boat had to carry, and she was so deep in the water that her gunwales were scarcely three inches above the surface; but there were never any heavy seas to be encountered in that little lake, and so there was no danger to be apprehended.
David sent the canoe rapidly along, and presently it entered the bayou that led to Bruin's Island.

As it approached Godfrey Evans's cabin Dan arose from the bench on which he was seated in front of the door, and ran hastily around the corner of the building.

He did not mean that Don and Bert should see him again, even at a distance, if he could help it.

He remained concealed until the canoe was out of sight, and then came back to his bench again.
While on the way up the bayou the young hunters stopped once, long enough to pick up a brace of ducks which Bert killed out of a flock that arose from the water just in advance of them, and at the end of an hour came within sight of the leaning sycamore which pointed out the position of Bruin's Island.