"Oh, I'd love to see a groundhog!" exclaimed Rose. "Let's go up and look!"
"All right," agreed Russ. "May we?" he asked his father, who was talking to the farmer while Captain Ben was oiling one of the springs of the car where a squeak had sounded since they started.
"Yes; but be careful," cautioned Mr. Bunker. "It may be a skunk instead of a groundhog that the dog is barking at."
"Oh, I don't believe so," said the farm boy. "Come on!" he called to the Bunker children, and they approached the big log in the field.
"It's hollow," said Russ, as they neared it.
"Yes, it's been there a good many years," the farm boy said. "Sometimes, when my sister and I are playing hide and seek, I crawl in there. What's the matter, Towser?" he asked his dog, who was barking louder than ever. "What's in the log?"
Russ stooped down and looked through it. He straightened up suddenly.
"There is something in it," he said. "And it's something that wears shoes! I can see 'em!"