I think he's worth more alive
than dead, if I can spruce him up a bit."
"Ye'll get yer hand bit off," one of the men said.
Then Harry said that all he wanted was a place to put the animal till
morning, and he'd see if he couldn't get some kind of medicine to dope him
with, while he tried to get the fly paper off. I guess they didn't like the
idea very much, but one of the men whose name was Hasbrook, said we could
put the leopard in his barn till morning if we wanted to. So they got him
into the wheelbarrow and it wasn't hard doing it on account of his legs
being tied. Then we all started back to the village.
While we were going along Harry said, "I've often heard of a man having an
elephant on his hands, but never a leopard. Maybe we'll have to shoot him,
but I just hate to do it. I have an idea that gasoline will melt that
stuff, only we'll have to be careful about his eyes. I'd try it to-night,
only I'm afraid to use the gasoline near a lamp. I'm going to send a line
to the Historical Museum people though, tonight, and one of you kids can
drop it at the office. I daresay there's a train out of this burg in a
few days.
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