He instinctively shrank back.
"Come on," said Sam; "but don't rise up or the boys will see us.

Crawl out of the hole and then follow me on your hands and knees." Jake obeyed, and the two presently jumped down to the ground on the side of the hummock furthest from camp.
Jake's first glance revealed Sam fully dressed, and standing firmly _in his boots_.

There could be no mistake about it, and yet a moment before he would have made oath that those very boots were hidden hopelessly within the deepest recesses of the drift-pile.

He could not restrain the exclamation which rose to his lips:-- "_Where_ DID _you get them boots_ ?" "Never mind where, or how.

I have a word or two to say to you.