He was greeted with shouts of laughter from Corrigan and several of the
others. But Stella looked at him anxiously, and he gave her a reassuring
glance.
"Ha, ha!" laughed Corrigan. "What do you think of snipe hunting now?"
"It was a good joke," said the colonel, "but I'm sure you will take it
good-naturedly."
"Yes," said Mr. Norcross, the banker. "It's quite a favorite amusement
out here."
Only the New Yorker said nothing, but gave Ted a peculiar glance. Ted
looked around at the group with a foolish smile.
"It was a good joke, gentlemen," said he, "and I have never been sore
because I have been handed one."
Another burst of satisfied laughter greeted this from the big
three--Corrigan, Norcross, and the colonel. But Stella and the boys
looked glum that Ted was being made the butt of a joke.
Then Ted put his sack on the floor and opened it and lifted something
out and placed it on the table. It was the iron box he had dug from the
earth at Bubbly Spring, with the fresh earth still sticking to it.
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