CHAPTER VII.
WHAT HAPPENED THERE.
"You're not going to get out, are you, Don ?" asked Bert, and as he was not more than four or five rods away, every word he uttered was distinctly heard by the two listeners in the cane.
"I want to stretch my legs a little," was Don's reply.

"Come on, and let's explore the island.

You know it used to be a famous bear's den, don't you ?" "I should think I ought to know it, having heard father tell the story of the animal's capture a dozen times or more.

He must have been a monster: he was so large and heavy that it was all a span of mules could do to drag him from the shore of the lake, where he was taken out of the boat, up to the house." "And didn't he make things lively before he was killed, though ?" said Don.

"He destroyed nine dogs and wounded two men.