4/12 But how could any one tell that Harry was a boy at that distance, and in that light. He could not speak without moving something, his lips any way, and the man might fire at the slightest motion. He was so quiet that the musk-rat--it was a musk-rat that lived in the hole--came out of his house, and seeing the boy so still, supposed he was nothing of any consequence, and so trotted noiselessly along to the water and slipped in for a swim. His eyes were fixed on the man. |