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Grace Harlowe’s Overland Riders in the Great North Woods

CHAPTER XVI
18/18

Yes, he is a wonderful watch dog." All were now crowded into the lean-to, except Willy, who, after cooking the bear-meat, said "Bye," and went away.
Good-nights were said early that evening and all hands turned in after Mrs.Shafto had fed what was left of the supper to Henry.

The bear had come in immediately after getting the odor of one of his relatives being cooked over the Overland Riders' campfire.
Rain roared on the bark roofs of the lean-tos all night long, but the girls, dry and cosy, slept the night through without once awakening, with Henry on guard out there sitting under a tree in a disconsolate attitude, now and then wearily licking the water from his coat.
Hindenburg, more favored, slept cuddled between Lieutenant Wingate's feet.
The present camp, it was understood between the Overlanders and Tom Gray, was to be a permanent camp for some time to come, and it was here that some of the most exciting scenes of their journey through the Great North Woods were to be witnessed by them..


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