"Behave!" commanded Laura, shaking the smaller girl. "You can't scare us that way."
"Nothing more ferocious inhabits these woods than a Teddy-bear," laughed Jess Morse.
"Then it was a Teddy bear I saw in that tree," declared Bobby, pointing. "And it was a live one."
The girls—some of them, at least—drew together. "What did you see, Clara?" demanded Nellie Agnew.
"A little brown animal——"
"A red squirrel!" cried Lance.
"Hark!" cried Chet. "I hear him."
There certainly did come to their ears a chattering sound.
"That's no squirrel," announced Otto. "I haf been hunting enough for them alretty."
"No squirrel was ever so noisy as that, Chet," said his sister.