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Young Hunters of the Lake by Ralph Bonehill
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raft! Back to the raft!" And he gave the well-known whistle.

In a few minutes he encountered Giant and Whopper and learned that
Shep had gone forward, to find out what the cries at the lake front
meant.

"We must get him to come back," he said. "You go down to the boats
and the raft and get them ready to shove off on short notice." And
he ran closer to the campfire.

The entire camp was now in wild commotion, for each lad present
understood that all the boats were gone. Ham Spink and Carl Dudder
were in a rage.

"We should have placed somebody on guard," cried Ham. "We were
chumps not to do it."

"I didn't think anybody would be over here so quick," answered
Carl. "How could they do it without a boat?"

"Maybe they had another boat," put in Ike Akley. "We missed it
by not looking around a little closer."

"Whoever he is, he isn't rowing across the lake," said Ham. "Let
us run along the shore and see if we can't get at him some way."

As there seemed to be nothing else to do, this plan was carried
out. The crowd, however, had only gone a short distance when they
literally ran into Shep, who had gone forward as already mentioned.

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