It was now about seven o'clock, and not as light as it had been.
A few minutes passed and the men did not seem to be doing anything.
"Do you know what I think?" declared Whopper. "I think that lion is hiding on them."
"Just what I was going to say," came from Giant. "Maybe he has crawled to some dark corner of the barn and nobody has the courage to stir him up."
"Do you want to stir him up?" asked Snap dryly.
"Not on your necktie!" answered the small youth.
"Let him sleep in peace," added Whopper.
"He won't sleep," said the doctor's son.
"Something doing, now!" cried Whopper a few minutes later. He had seen one of the men run across the yard. "Why, I declare, there is the lion in the yard next door!"
"How did he get there?" asked Snap.
"I don't know."