"Huh! Think I'm comnig down?" asked Danny. "I'm not afraid of you, but I'm going to stay up here."
"Oh, are you?" asked Bert, as he thought of a new plan. "We'll see about that. Come here, Harry."
From the tree Danny looked down anxiously while Harry and Bert whispered together. The girls had walked off to one side.
"How are you going to get him down?" asked Harry.
"Cut the tree," answered Bert "It's only a small one."
"But we can't even cut that down with our knives."
"I know. But on the ice-boat is that hatchet father gave me to take to be sharpened. I forgot about it on the way up the lake, and I was going to do it on the way back. There's a blacksmith shop in the big cove. But the hatchet is sharp enough to chop down this tree. We'll get it and give Danny a good scare."
"That's what we will. You stay here and I'll run down and get it."
