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`` Jest as good around here as t ` udder lake , my boy . '' A vote was taken , and all of the boys decided that they would remain at the spot . This being settled upon , they brought their stores ashore and placed them in the shack , so that no further rain could get at them . `` We have lost enough through the rain and that bear , '' said Snap , and then had to tell Jed Sanborn all about the mysterious midnight visitor . `` Oh , but I wish I had been on hand -- to git a crack at that bear ! '' cried the hunter . `` I ai n't had a crack at a bear fer some time .