"In there hunting for a loose patch," and Sam held up the boot.
"Let's turn him out," suggested the Second Chief.
So the string was cut and the Chipmunk scrambled out and away to a safer refuge.
"Now, sonny," said Sam, as it disappeared, "don't tell your folks what happened you or they'll swat you for a liar."
"Oh, shucks! That's no adventure. Why, I—"
"Hold on, Hawkeye; Little Beaver next."
"Well, I don't care. I bet I—"
Sam grabbed his knife and interrupted: "Do you know what Callahan's spring lamb did when it saw the old man gathering mint? Go ahead, Little Beaver."
[474] "I hadn't much of an adventure, but I went straight through the woods where my straw pointed and ran into a big dead stub. It was too old and rotten for Birds to use now, as well as too late in the season, so I got a pole and pushed it over, and I found the whole history of a tenement in that stub. First of all, a
