the powder-horns must have been accidentally blown up.

"No damage done, boys, I hope?" he cried on coming

up.

"Damage!" cried Henri, holding his hands tight

over his face. "Oh! oui, great damage--moche damage;

me two eyes be blowed out of dere holes."

"Not quite so bad as that, I hope," said Dick, who

was very slightly singed, and forgot his own hurts in

anxiety about his comrade. "Let me see."

"My eye!" exclaimed Joe Blunt, while a broad grin