CHAPTER V 
HOW BOBBY AND TOMMY LEARNED THE 
MAN-SMELL 
But Bobby soon forgot his fright and 
his and Tommy’s muscles grew stronger 
every day and their baby fears were 
nearly all gone, now. They had learned 
to crawl out on the big beech limb and lie 
there fearlessly and as quiet as mice. 
They could climb the tallest trees; they 
knew all the forest smells and could tell, 
just as well and surely as could Mrs. 
Lynx herself, when the wind spelled rab¬ 
bit or a weasel! One smell they had not 
learned,-—the smell of their most terrible 
enemy,— man ! And this smell they were 
to learn one night and never, never would 
they forget it as long as they lived! 
It was one lovely night when all the 
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