“Then I’ll not go to sleep at all, at all!”
“Teddy, don’t let them fool you,” remonstrated Joel Runnell. “If a bear comes I’ll take care of him.”
“I met a bear once,” said Teddy, after a pause. “I was that close to him,” and he measured off a distance of but a few feet.
“Oh, Teddy, what did you do?” questioned Bart.
“I’ll wager you was scared half to death,” came from one of the others.
“Did he try to bite you, or hug you to death?” questioned still another.
“Were you armed?”
“Where was this, out around here?”
“No, it wasn’t. It was over to Dackerville.”
“Dackerville?”