He looked at his chums and they nodded, to show that they agreed with him. The two men looked rather dissatisfied.
"So you won't take the deer meat, even after we carried it away over here?" said Vance Lemon.
"No."
"That isn't a very friendly way to act."
"Well, you didn't act very friendly in the first place," answered
Shep.
"Having pretty good luck, you say?" asked Giles Faswig, curiously.
"The very best of luck," answered the leader of the Gun flub, and mentioned some of the game brought down. "So you can easily see we don't need this venison at all," he added.
At this the two men looked at each other and murmured something the boys could not catch.
"We came over to—er—to do a little trading," said Giles Faswig. "Got plenty of ammunition on hand, I reckon."
"All we wish," answered Snap, and then he suddenly "smelt a mouse," as the saying goes, and winked at his chums.