For a few minutes the tramps said nothing. They all stood looking at the fallen tree that had crushed their home in the woods.
“Well!” exclaimed several of the men.
“It’s a good thing we got out in time,” growled one tramp.
“I should say so!” exclaimed another. “Lucky you saw it coming,” he added to the tramp who had called the warning.
“Did some one chop the tree down?” asked a third tramp.
“No, I guess the wind blew it,” said a fourth.
“There isn’t enough wind to blow a tree down,” decided the first tramp, who had red hair.
Of course we know it wasn’t the wind that blew the tree down. It was Toto and Sniffy who gnawed it and made it fall. But the tramps were too lazy to go and see what had caused the tree to topple over. They just stood there and looked at their crushed house.
“It will be a lot of work to build that up again,” said one tramp. “She’s smashed flat.”