I should have yelled all the skin off my throat, if I'd have known he was after me with a gun." After Harry had been home an hour or two, and Kate had somewhat recovered from her transports of joy, and everybody in the village had heard all about everything that had happened, and Captain Caseby had declared, in the bosom of his family, that he would never go out into the woods again at night without keeping up a steady "holler," Harry remembered that he had left his sumac-bag somewhere in the woods.

Hard work for a whole day and a night, and nothing to show for it! Rather a poor prospect for Aunt Matilda..