[Grace Harlowe’s Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Jessie Graham Flower]@TWC D-Link bookGrace Harlowe’s Overland Riders in the Great North Woods CHAPTER VI 2/9
Hippy ran to Hindenburg whom he found whimpering and licking his wounds. "You poor fish! Why did you do it ?" rebuked Lieutenant Wingate. "Git up!" commanded Joe Shafto, poking Henry in the ribs with her stick. "Come with me and behave yerself, or I'll wallop ye till ye won't be able to smell venison for a year of Sundays." The guide fastened on one of Henry's ears and started for the trail, Henry ambling along meekly at her side.
"Lieutenant, keep that pup away from my Henry," ordered Joe. "Joe, keep that bear away from my pup," retorted Hippy, carrying Hindenburg in his arms and gently depositing him in the saddle bag. "Oh, Hippy, what happened to you ?" cried Emma. "I've been communing with nature," he answered briefly. "Darlin', let me wipe the blood from your face," crooned Nora.
"Did the naughty bear scratch oo bootiful face ?" The Overlanders shouted and Hippy, very red of face, sprang into his saddle with such a jolt that Ginger gave him a lively minute of bucking in which poor Hindenburg got a shaking up that made him whimper. The forest woman with her mules had already started and was now some distance in the lead, with her pet bear shuffling along at the edge of the road abreast of the leading mule. "Ye git nothin' to eat to-day, Henry.
I didn't bring ye up to brawl and to fit with yaller dogs, ye lazy lout," scolded Joe. When the party halted for its noon rest and luncheon, Henry sat morosely at one side of their camping place, now and then licking his chops, while Hindenburg, performing the same service for his wounds, occupied a position on the opposite side of the camp.
Neither animal appeared to be aware of the other's existence. "Behold the forest," said Tom Gray later in the afternoon, halting his pony on a rise of ground, and encompassing a wide range of country with a sweep of his arm. It was an undulating sea of deep green, almost as limitless as the sky itself, that the Overland Riders gazed upon. "Them's the Big North Woods," Joe informed them.
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