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The lads sat cross-legged on the ground and ate their first woodland meal with keen relish. When they had finished, and Ben had smoked a pipe, he sent them to the stream for water, which was heated over the bed of glowing embers. Then he gave George a dish-cloth and Ed a coarse towel, and set them at work cleaning and drying the dishes. This task finished, the horses were hitched to the wagon; and Ben and the lads climbed aboard, and once more started along the trail.

Noisy jays chattered from the tops of the tallest pines; squirrels scolded from beside the road; and high overhead a large hawk circled about on motionless wings and screamed down at them. The boys asked Ben all sorts of questions about the birds and animals they were likely to see in the woods.

Late in the afternoon they branched off upon a new road that led straight away into the deepest solitudes of the forest. Ben said they were within a short distance of the cabin, and the boys peered anxiously forward to obtain a glimpse of the place which was to be their home for many months to come. This new route followed along the shore of a beautiful woodland lake, and visions of fishing filled their minds as they gazed out over its glistening blue waters.