“Beavers are smart,” Judy whispered back. “They only work at night. We’ll have to wait here until after dark if we want to see them working.”
“Do we have to?” Holly asked, shivering a little at the thought of being in the woods after dark.
“It will be all right,” Judy comforted her. “Horace and Honey will be here by then. I can get sharper pictures with my flashbulb after dark. There will be no other light to interfere.”
“But going back in the dark will be terrible. We’ll get lost,” Holly interrupted.
“Oh, no, we won’t,” Judy reassured her. “I have my flashlight here in my shoulder bag.”
The shoulder bag was no longer on her shoulder. It was propped behind the stump. In it Judy had stored a number of useful things including the sweet apples the Jewell sisters had given them. Holly decided to eat her apple right away.
“I’m hungry,” she declared, taking a big bite.
Judy was surprised that the sound of anyone eating an apple could be so loud. When Holly had finished it she tossed the apple core in the pond. It hit the surface of the water with a loud plop.
“I’m sorry. I hope I didn’t scare the beavers,” Holly said.
“Sh! We weren’t going to talk,” Judy reminded her.