"It would be fine," she told him, "only Ma is expecting me at the house. She is visiting, too. Wouldn't it be nicer for you to come with me? They will be glad to see you because you saved me from the cow. I am awfully hungry and Grandma is the best cook. We're going to have lemonade. She told me so. Come on, do." "Lemonade would taste good," he said, "if I only dast." "Huh!" said she, tossing her head. "I thought that you were not afraid of anything." "I ain't of a cow. This is different. Say, that was a swell song you were singing. I wish I knew it." "I'll teach it to you after dinner, if you will come. If you don't you're a 'fraid cat." "All right. I'll go if it kills me." Skinny says that he never ate a dinner that tasted any better than that one did. Mrs. Richmond was scared when she heard about the cow and she couldn't say enough about how he had saved her little girl from a terrible death. "That wasn't anything," he told her. "Scouts are always doing those things. I'm going to try to save somebody from drowning when I come back along the river to-morrow." "I'll tell you a better stunt than that," said Mary's grandfather, winking one eye at the rest of the folks. "Why don't you go up to Savoy on the east mountain. That would make a walk of about seven miles from the village. You won't find anybody drowning up there, but several deer have been seen around there lately." "Gee!" said Skinny, his eyes sticking out when he thought of the deer. "If I only had a gun!" "It's against Massachusetts law to shoot deer. That's why they are getting so common. You have your rope. Maybe you can lasso one. There is no law against that, I guess." "I'll do it," Skinny told him. "Bet your life the boys will be surprised when they see me bringing home a deer. Maybe I'll get two or three. Mr. Norton didn't give me a message to anybody, so it won't make any difference which way I go." "Don't get too many. We'd like to save a few. And be careful that some bear doesn't get you," went on Mr. Richmond, laughing to see how excited Skinny was. "They are not very common, but once in a while one is seen on the mountain." "How do you get up there?" "Go back to Pumpkin Hook. It isn't far, and then follow the road which turns east. It will take you right to Savoy. You will find a pretty good road all the way, and you won't have any more trouble than you would going to Cheshire--unless," he added in a fierce voice that made Skinny jump, "unless A BEAR GETS YOU!" "Now, father, don't scare the boy to death," said Mary's mother. "You know well enough there are no bears and the road to Savoy is a well-traveled one." "Of course it is, or I shouldn't have suggested his going there. But there have been bears seen on the Savoy Mountain. I saw one myself, last year."