it isn't sprained though. It ought
to be well in four or five days. Anything you want? Anything we can do
for you? If there is, go ahead and do it yourself. The rest of the
fellows are off partridge hunting. What do you want, provisions,
matches? I'll tell you where they are and you can help yourself. I
can't move."

"We don't want heem nothin'. We go out of woods now right off, down wood
road. Why you don't fix heem camp up good? Look um fire--poor, bad, very
worse. Some day heem catch bush so, leaves mebby, and then heem timber
fire. Burn out heem woods. Look um pans, pots, dirty dishes. Not good
for smell. Not good for men in heem woods. Blankets, look um all get
lousy. Not very good camp, heem," said the Canadian, plainly showing
his disgust at the general disorder about the place.

"I know it, old chap. It looks like the sloppiest kind of a place to me,
but then I'm not supposed to know anything about camps and woods. I come
from Boston, you see. The other fellows are the campers. They are
Vermonters, from St. Cloud City," said the man in the doorway
sarcastically.

"Huh, a deuced of a lot they know about the woods and camping," said
Bruce in disgust as he surveyed the scene.

"They know more about keeping a pig sty," said Jiminy Gordon as he picked
up the blankets and, shaking them free of the dust, hung them onto the
branch of a nearby hemlock.

"Thanks, old chap, those blankets on the ground worried me a lot. And if
you don't mind, will you scrape up a few of those papers? Jack and Bart
(they are the fellows who are camping with me) run off every morning and
leave a mess like that behind. They are off hunting most of the day and
here I have to sit like a blooming invalid until they come back. But I
don't mind so long as I have a good book. Thanks, that looks much
better, doesn't it? I'm much obliged to you fellows--ah--er, what're
your names anyway--mine's Dave--Dave Connors."

The two scouts introduced themselves and then because Paul Nez had
started down the wood road they waved farewell to the camper with the
injured foot and hustled to catch up to the timber cruiser.

"When you come into heem woods for cut um down?" asked the Canadian when
the scouts finally caught up with him.

"Why we are going to start cutting right away," said Bruce. "You see we
get a fall vacation and that will help a lot. School closes tomorrow and
remains closed until next Monday. The whole tro