"Shucks! Lizards won't hurt a fellow."
"Maybe there are snakes, too," said Rosslyn, hastily backing away from the place.
"We'd have heard them," Billiard answered promptly. "Susie has fired enough rocks at 'em to stir 'em up if there was any there."
"But Tabitha mightn't like it," suggested Irene in troubled tones.
"Did she ever say you couldn't go?"
"N-o."
"Or did your mother?"
"N-o."
"Then what's to hinder?"
"S'posing the rope should bu'st," mused Irene aloud.