Asa and Jim were asleep.

Addison lay still, and a few minutes later heard the rogues put up their poles with the hooks on them, and begin gently to shake the high limbs.
The sound of the pears dropping on the ground waked Asa and Jim, and at a whispered word from Addison all three bounded over the orchard wall and rushed to the gateway, shouting, "We've got ye! We've got ye now! Surrender! Surrender and go to jail!" Surprised though they were, Alfred and Harvey had no intention of surrendering.

Dropping their poles, they sprang for the pound wall.

In a moment they had scrambled to the top.

Then they jumped for the ground on the other side; but the yielding meshes of the skunk fence brought them up short.