rnel Cob
grasped his sword firmly in his hand and ran at them, and, so fiercely
did he fight, that in a minute he had driven away about a hundred of
them. And he would have driven them all away, but his foot slipped
and, before he could get up again, he was overpowered and bound hand
and foot.

And they brought him before their chief who was a great giant.

And when it was night, the savages tied the two captives to trees and
went to sleep about a great fire. And in the middle of the night when
Kernel Cob was thinking of some way in which to make their escape, he
heard something stirring in the grass at his feet.

"Who's that?" he whispered.

"Tommy Hare," was the reply, and he ran out from a stone behind which
he had been hiding.

"Good for you!" said Kernel Cob. "Come stand up on your hind legs,
like a good fellow, and untie me from this tree."

"Who are you?" asked Tommy cautiously.

"I'm Kernel Cob and this is my little friend Sweetclover and we're
looking for Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather and we've been captured
by the savages who may keep us here forever if you don't help us."

"That I will," said Tommy, and in a jiffy he had gnawed them free.

"Now, show us the way down to the beach as quickly as you can," said
Kernel Cob, "for it will be daylight soon and then it will be too
late. Come."

And they started running as fast as they could.

And not a minute too soon, for they had got only half way when they
heard the shouts of the savages and knew that their escape had been
discovered.

Faster and faster they ran, but the savages gained on them at every
step and were soon close upon their heels.

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"Jump on my back!" shouted Tommy, "for I can run faster than all of
them put together."

And they did so and flew over the ground as fast as the wind.

And they reached the shore and jumped into the shoeboat and Tommy
shoved them off with a great push that put them out of sight of land,
and the savages' spears fell in the water behind them.

"That was a narrow escape," said Sweetclover, as she settled down in
the boat. "I hope Tommy Hare wasn't caught by the savages."

But she needn't have worried in the least about Tommy, for as soon as
he had pushed them off, he scurried away and was at that moment
sitting under a tree, eating his breakfast.

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CHAPTER VI

Kernel Cob and Sweetclover sailed all day. The shoeboat rode the waves
with perf