The city sportsmen looked at each other in alarm.
“Good gwacious!” gasped Gates. “We must go where no othaw persons will come, Awchie.”
“I’m afraid you’ll find that difficult,” said Frank; “for I have been told that as soon as the law is off in the fall, the woods are full of hunters from the Iron Works to the Canadian line on the north. They fairly swarm in here.”
“Cholly,” said Archie, “I don’t know as I want to go any further into these dweadful woods. It is too dangerous, don’t yer ’now.”
“That’s wight,” agreed Cholly; “I think we bettah wecooperate at Baw Hawbah, and keep out of the blawsted woods, deah boy.”
CHAPTER IX.
SOME SHOOTING.
Getting out of the village, they found a favorable place beside the river to try their rifles. Frank had brought along a board which he picked up as he was coming out of the village. It was a foot in width and three feet long. On the one end of this he fastened an envelope, and, with a lead pencil, he made a black circle as large as a silver half-dollar in the center of the envelope.