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the uplands, where they expected to find the bugs. 

 That ridge, however, was held by Jim Blakeley's 

 flock of geese. There were six mean ganders in the 

 flock, and the way they hissed at them led the boys 

 to believe that the geese were determined to defend 



FIG. 52. "There is plenty of rubbish on his farm." 



that ridge. It became a question of taking the 

 ridge by storm or retracing their steps and reaching 

 the uplands by a long route. They might have 

 stopped to think it over, but Harry Fulmer had 

 made up his mind, and waving his stick high above 

 his head he called " Charge ! ! !" Up the ridge they 



