"I guess he knows what's good for his health!" shouted Sandy. "Me
for a tree, too!"
The boys probably never made quicker motions in their lives.
"Have you got a searchlight with you?" asked Thede.
Sandy shook his head sadly.
"Then we can't see to shoot the beasts," wailed Thede, "and it
looks to me like one of those long, cold nights in a tree!"
CHAPTER XVIII
A PILLAR OF FIRE
"Can you build a fire with one match?" asked Thede, after a short
silence, during which the boys had been trying in vain to get a
shot at the bears.
"Of course I can!" answered Sandy. "What's the good of going
through all those Boy Scout examinations, if a fellow can't build a
fire with one match? Of course I can build a fire with one match!"
"Can you build a fire with one match up in a tree?" asked Thede,
with a suspicion of mirth in his voice.
"Of course I can!" answered Sandy.
"Up in a tree in the darkness, on a windy night?" asked Thede.
"If this thing is going to your head, you'd better drop down and
make a run for the camp!" advised Sandy.
"Honest, now," asked Thede, "can you make a fire with one match in
a green tree, in a high wind, on a dark night?"
"Cut it out!" roared Sandy.
"Because if you can," Thede explained, "I think I can show you a
way out of this mess!"
"Well, go on and show it, then!"
"All you've got to do," Thede went on, "is to build a fire and drop
the burning brands down on top of the bears.
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