“I tell you I saw the deer as plain as anything!” Joe declared. “I know a deer when I see one, even in the dark.”
“And I know a skunk when I smell one—even in the dark!” laughed Teddy. “But maybe you were right, Joe. Probably you saw the deer but he got away. Maybe the deer scared the skunk or maybe he even might have stepped too close. Anyhow the skunk is on the trail ahead and that means we lay off.”
“I guess you’re right,” Joe said. “But we had a swell chance!”
“I don’t want to take any chances with a skunk,” Teddy said.
CHAPTER XIX
NIGHT CAMP
Disappointed at the result of the chase, but thankful they had not come in any closer contact with the skunk, the boys returned to their homes.
Teddy tried to climb up the rope to get back into his room, but he made so much noise his father came out to see what was going on.
“I thought you were in bed,” remarked Mr. Benson.
“Oh, I was out With Joe and Dick after that deer.”