Just as they were finishing their breakfasts Joe led over June and July, and waited observantly while Tom and Hippy rolled their belongings into packs which Mrs.Shafto lashed to the mules with her own hands.
"Ye see the twins don't like to have strangers monkeyin' around 'em," she explained.

"I'll git goin' now and ye kin foller along.

I've got to git Henry first." "Eh?
What's that ?" demanded Hippy.
"I don't go nowheres without my Henry." "You--you aren't going to take that beast with you, are you, Mrs.
Shafto ?" cried Emma.
"I sure be, and I reckon ye'll be mighty glad to have him along before we git through with this here hop into the Big Woods." Emma groaned dismally.
"Never mind," soothed Hippy.

"You can practice your nature reading stunt on him.

Who knows but that you may learn the bear language, so that by the time we finish our work up here you will be able to go out in the forest and tell the bears your life history, and listen to them telling you theirs.