A few minutes passed and the men did not seem to be doing anything.

"Do you know what I think?" declared Whopper. "I think that lion
is hiding on them."

"Just what I was going to say," came from Giant. "Maybe he has
crawled to some dark corner of the barn and nobody has the courage
to stir him up."

"Do you want to stir him up?" asked Snap dryly.

"Not on your necktie!" answered the small youth.

"Let him sleep in peace," added Whopper.

"He won't sleep," said the doctor's son.

"Something doing, now!" cried Whopper a few minutes later. He had
seen one of the men run across the yard. "Why, I declare, there is
the lion in the yard next door!"

"How did he get there?" asked Snap.

"I don't know."

"That man is going to take another shot!" cried Shep as he saw a gun
raised.

"And there goes the lion!" cried Snap as the form of the animal arose
swiftly in the air. With grace and precision the lord of the animal