baby--Mary comforted--Jerry cuffed--Mortification.


CHAPTER XVI.

IN THE WOODS.

Forgotten medicine and renewed health--An excursion
planned--A gun wanted, but denied--Setting out on a long
tramp--Swamps--Upland--Brooks--How Brookdale got its name--Cutting
canes--Birch and beech--How to crook the handle of a cane--The philosophy
of it explained--The cigars--Fine groves--Stopping to rest--The
forest described--Birds and guns--Other game--Jim Oakley's strange
animal--Moose--The man who met a bear--A race--Mysterious disappearance
of the bear--The probable cause of his visit--The boy who killed two
bears--Oscar's courage--Prospect Rock--A fine view--The rabbit--The
woodchuck's hole--Crossing a swamp--Mosquitoes--The pond--The
hermit's hut--Some account of "Old Staples"--Buried treasures--Making
a fire--Baking potatoes and toasting cheese--Drinking pond
water--Dinner--Hunting for the hermit's money--What they meant to do with
it--A bath proposed--Smoothing over the matter--Going Into water--Drying
their hair--Going home--Lost In the woods--Arrival home--One kind of
punishment for wrong-doing.


CHAPTER XVII.

CLINTON.

The missing cap--Splitting wood--Jerry and Emily--A quarrel begun--The