“That was no cat,” Jack assured him. “It’s a fact that they do sound something like it, but there’s a difference.”
“You have heard them?”
“Lots of times. If you’d ever heard one you could tell the difference.”
“Then you think it was a man?”
“Either a man or a woman. No four-legged animal around here makes a noise like that.”
Just then the door of the cabin opened and a voice asked:
“Did you catch it, daddy?”
“Not yet, kitten.”
“Well, please take this.”
In the dim light the boys saw her hand her father a small object and the next moment he burst into laughter.