CHAPTER XX
DANIEL BOONE’S GREAT SHOT
“Oh, Harmony, the boys are coming back!”
“So I see, Cora. What is that they are dragging on the snow behind them?”
“Some game, I suppose. Mrs. Parsons, can you make it out?”
The Quakeress gave a long look.
“It looks to me as if ’twere a bear,” she answered slowly. “But we shall soon know for certain, girls, so be patient.”
Throwing on their capes and hoods, Cora and Harmony rushed out of the log cabin, and to the end of the path that had been shoveled through the snow.
“It is a bear!” cried Harmony.
“And a big one, too!” put in her sister.
When the young pioneers reached the girls they were all but exhausted over the long, hard pull.