“Don’t go back!—it may go off, yet,” answered Dick. “Sometimes——”
Bang! went the cannon, and the tremendous report echoed and re-echoed throughout the hills surrounding Valley Brook. The charge had been so big that the piece had “kicked back” about a yard.
“Say, that was a noise!”
“If that didn’t wake the folks up nothing will!”
“I’m glad she didn’t burst.”
“So am I.”
“By gum, you’re celebratin’ all right!” came from Jack Ness, as he poked his head from behind a tree. “I guess they must have heard that clear down to the Corners.”
“Further than that!” replied Tom.
“Oh, Tom, did you do that?” came a voice from an upper window, and Nellie showed her face.
“What an awful noise!” came from another window, as Dora appeared.