"I saw something then---over yonder!" cried Giant, and pointed to
the back of a yard down by the corner of the street.

"A dog---and he is legging it for dear life," returned Whopper. "He
looks as if he wouldn't stop this side of the North Pole!"

"Perhaps the lion scared him," said Shep. "I think-----Look!"

The doctor's son broke off short and pointed with his hand. Gazing
in the direction indicated, the lads saw something dark slinking
on the opposite side of a high picket fence.

"It's the lion!" said Snap in a whisper. "See his tail swaying
from side to side?"

"Oh, for a rifle!" murmured Whopper. "Aunty, have you a gun?"
called Shep. "We see the lion!"

"No, I haven't any gun," answered the lady of the house quickly.
"And you had better get inside as quickly as you can. The lion
may leap up at you."

"I don't think he can jump so high."

"There are some of the men with their guns," went on Giant. "See,
they are running around to the front of that house."

"I wonder if they see the lion?" asked Snap. "Let us yell to them,"
suggested Whopper. One after another the boys set up a shout. But