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 so he started for the farm without even stopping for his hat, while Bud followed with the box trap on his shoulder.

When they had entered an empty pen, Bud pulled out the nails with which he had secured the wire netting around the box trap door and slowly lifted the door. But Redcoat had not been taken unawares, he was ready, tense and waiting. As soon as the door had been lifted enough to allow his passing beneath it he sprang out like a flash and with two great jumps landed full against the wire netting fence. He had thought it so fragile that he could go through it just as though it had been a willow thicket, but to his great surprise this fragile looking wall threw him back heavily. But he was up again like a flash and went up the wall of the wire fence like a cat. But at the top his head struck the shelf which extended horizontally for a foot and a half and he again fell heavily upon his back.

"Here, here, old chap," said Mr. Jen-