“Gosh! this is worse than I thought it was going to be,” groaned Randy. “I thought a pail or two of water would put it all out!”
“Hi! Hi! Take care there!” came suddenly from Gif.
He was yelling at Spouter whose left foot had slipped from under him. Then came a yell of fright, and the next moment Spouter dropped the teakettle with a clatter and rolled over and over and shot from the roof of the lodge to the ground below!
CHAPTER XI
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ROAD
Both Jack and Randy were greatly alarmed when they saw their former school chum roll from the roof of the hunters’ lodge and disappear from sight.
“He’ll break his neck!” gasped Randy.
Andy was on the ladder with a pot of water when the accident occurred. He saw Spouter fly over the edge of the roof, turn something of a somersault and then come down very much in the shape of a huge frog. He landed in some low bushes growing beside a window, and then fell backward on the wet grass.
“Spouter!” exclaimed Gif, rushing up, followed by Fred. “Are you hurt?”
There was no immediate answer to this, but the boy who loved occasionally to orate turned over slowly on his hands and knees and then got up on his feet.