“Did Dick bring a dog after all?” asked Joe.
“I don’t know, but here’s a dog!” went on Teddy excitedly. “Dick!” he shouted.
But Dick was awake. Instinctively he had reached for his flashlight and switched it on, though the moon was bright. And in the glow of the combined lights the boys saw a large dog regarding them from the ash-strewn spot where the campfire had been made. It was a huge beast and its eyes glowed in the shafts of the flashlights.
There it stood, looking intently at the boys as if ready to spring on them.
CHAPTER XXI
CAUGHT
For a few seconds Teddy and his chums did not know whether the big dog was a friend or enemy. Teddy had the thought that they might be camping on the ground of some farmer who kept a fierce dog to drive away tramps.
“But,” thought Teddy, “the dog couldn’t be very fierce or it wouldn’t have awakened me by licking my face with his tongue. He’d have started in biting me.”
However, in a little while the dog, which had been so closely looking at the boys, whom he could plainly see by the moonlight, wagged his tail in a friendly way.
“I guess he’s all right,” Teddy announced.