"I should say it was a wildcat; but let's ask Allan, to make sure,"
replied the patrol leader, and upon reaching the spot, Allan instantly
declared the same thing.

At that Bumpus appeared to be satisfied; and as the trout was now ready
for the pan they adjourned to where the fire was waiting, with a hungry
looking cook in readiness to get things going.

Just as they anticipated, that trout was elegant--no other word Bumpus
could conjure up would begin to do justice to the feast they had that
morning. And the proud captor of the prize cast many a look in the
direction of his rival, which of course the envious Giraffe construed to
mean; "see what I can do when I set my mind on a job; and get busy
yourself."

But then Giraffe had just had a pretty generous second portion of the
salmon-colored fish steak, and was in no humor to get huffy.

He did start in right after breakfast to get several lines out, and
attended to the same assiduously all morning. Between the busy workers
they managed to pull in five fish, of which Bumpus took two. So that
thus far the score was even, as regards numbers, though the fat scout
was still "high notch" when the question of size was concerned.

"I see that before we get back home we'll all have swelled heads," Thad
remarked, with a broad, smile; and upon the others demanding to know
what he meant, he went on to say: "why, don't you know, scientists unite
in declaring that fish is the greatest brain food going; so if these
fellows keep on loading us down with trout and white fish and every