Nix! He was crouching and he looked just as if he
was going to make a spring for the tree. Mr. Ellsworth says that most
fights are won by quick thinking, so I knew that if I could only think of
something to do quicker than that animal could spring, I'd be all right.
First I thought I'd just shinny down and run and maybe he wouldn't follow
me. That was a punk think. All of a sudden he opened his mouth wide and
kind of hissed at me and came just about two or three inches closer to the
tree.
Then, all in a jiffy I had a-you know-what do you call those things? _An
inspiration._ I pulled the bundle around from my back and tore it open and
tore open the paper that the two chops were in. Charlie Seabury says he
ought to have the gold cross because he saved my life, but I don't see it.
Do you? Just because I was bringing the chops to him. He says he made a
sacrifice. I should worry.
Even the sound of the paper crunching made the animal move a little nearer
and hiss louder and paw the ground with one of its fore feet. I guess in a
couple more seconds he would have had me, but I just threw one of the chops
right at him and he pounced on it.
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