Illustration #1 "The animal was crouching on the ground, looking up."
That gave me two or three seconds to think. Because you can see for
yourself that if an animal is ready to eat a boy scout it wouldn't take
him very long to eat a chop. Maybe you'll say it wasn't good to give him
raw meat, but how about me. Wasn't I raw meat? It was better to give him
the chop and have a few seconds to think than to let him do the thinking
and get me.
That was the time when I did some thinking in four or five seconds. Gee
whiz, you have to think quick at school exams, but cracky, leopards are
worse than school principals, I should hope. Anyway, they're just as bad.
Now was the time I wished that I had left the door of the spring house
open a little wider, because I had a dandy idea. As long as the animal
knew what it was I was throwing, he'd go after the other chop when I threw
it. Because chops were his favorite food, I could see that. So if I could
only just throw the other chop into the doorway he'd go in there after it,
and while he was eating it I'd shinny down in a hurry and shut the door and
wedge a board against it.
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