"Some hunter's meanness," was Snap's comment.
"A fellow who would destroy a signboard ought to be locked up,"
was Whopper's comment. "It's about on a par with starting a forest
fire."
They trudged on, and presently came to where somebody had had
a camp fire. Here were some empty tins and some well-picked bones.
Giant kicked over one of the empty tins.
"Hello! I know who was here!" he cried. "Ham Spink and his crowd."
"How do you know?" demanded the doctor's son.
"Because I know they had some of this brand of canned goods with
'em---saw it among their supplies. It's different from the kind we
have, or what you can get in the regular stores. The Spinks have
their goods sent by freight from the city."
"Giant must be right," said Snap. "And look here, will you?"
As he spoke Snap pulled from the dead embers of the fire a half-burned
bit of wood. It was part of a signboard.
"Humph! the signboard that was missing below here," muttered Shep.
"Ham and his crowd were too lazy to cut firewood, so they used
the board. If that isn't the height of laziness and meanness!"
"It's against the law to destroy signboards," said Whopper.
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