A POT-HUNTER'S DEFIANCE 71 



was not a quivering line in his face. He stood 

 stock-still. The stranger, watching the two 

 closely, decided to himself that the boy would 

 not weaken. 



Shan's brain was slowly revolving the thought 

 that Bull Adam had been facing jail nearly all his 

 life and that nothing had ever come of it. He 

 knew his uncle well enough to be sure that the old 

 man would do everything possible to keep him out 

 of prison for defying a game warden. 



H^ looked up and faced Thompson squarely. 

 The} 'aade a strange couple thus opposed, the long, 

 rangy Carolinian with his rifle and the barefoot 

 boy with a couple of eggs in one hand and a turtle 

 dangling by the tail in the other. 



*'I haven't shot anything," said the boy, ''and I 

 believe you're lying when you say you can put me 

 in jail for taking a couple of wild bird's eggs. If 

 you are lying, or if you're trying something you 

 haven't any right to, it's BuU Adam that you'll 

 have to answer to. He was sayin', just the other 

 night, that being a game warden is a dangerous 

 trade!" 



It was the game warden's turn to hesitate. He 

 was aware, himself, that he might have difficulty 

 in getting a local jury to convict a boy for taking a 



