Now that I've got another chance to 'arn a share in them hundred and fifty dollars, nobody shan't take it away from me." Dan was as good as his word.

He kept a sharp watch over David's interests, and perhaps we shall see that he was the means of defeating a certain plan, which, if it had been carried into execution, would have worked a great injury to the boy trapper.
The wagon having passed on out of hearing, Dan shouldered his rifle and started toward the landing.

While he was skulking through the woods at the lower end of the field, he stopped in a fence corner long enough to see David and his two friends transfer another good-sized catch from one of the traps to the coop in the wagon.

The sight encouraged him greatly.

If David's good luck would only continue for just one week, the fifty dozen birds would certainly be captured, and Dan would stand a chance of making a small fortune.