"We won't ask him," Dick replied.
"Now, why not? We have money enough so we can afford to buy some shells, and——"
"Harry, did you tell your folks you expected there'd be a shotgun along on this trip?"
"'Course not. I didn't know there would be one."
"Do you think your folks would have let you come if they had thought of such a thing?"
"Maybe not. But they didn't say a word against our having one."
"Harry, if our parents were to hear that we had taken a shotgun along they'd be worried to death," said Dick gravely.
"Humph! We're old enough to manage a gun," remonstrated Hazelton.
"Perhaps we are, but it would worry our home folks just the same. Boys are always believed to be careless with firearms. We don't want any shotgun along, and then we won't have any need to be sorry about it afterwards."
"But there'll be rabbits and other game that we might get."