“O, you’ll see.”
He next took two slim, pointed steel rods, nearly three feet long, from the outside of his pack, where they were fastened, as they were too long to go inside.
“What are those?” asked Charlie.
“Muskrat spears,” said Joe. “That will be fun alive for you boys.”
The next articles were three little bottles filled with some liquid.
“What are these?”
“That’s telling,” said Uncle Isaac, laying another vial on the table.
John removed the cork, and smelt of it. “That’s aniseseed. What’s it for?”
“To tole foxes and fishes.”
“What’s this?”—taking up another.