"It's nothing but a stump," Bob said after taking a long look.

"Stump, your eye."

Jack snatched the glass from his hand and looked again.

"It was moving when I looked before," he said as he handed them back to his brother.

"And it is now," Bob declared excitedly a moment later. "It's either a man or—or—"

"Or something else," Jack finished the sentence.

"It must be a man. No other animal would crawl along like that."

"But what's he trying to do?"

"Trying not to let us see him, I'd say."

"Of course, smarty, but what's he after?"