"If they're as lively at picking as they are at eating you'll have all
the currants in the kitchen by noon," Farmer Green remarked to his wife
with a laugh as the boys trooped off toward the barn with their tin
pails.
A few minutes later a noise as of terrific pounding reached the ears of
Farmer Green as he stood talking with his wife.
"What's that?" he muttered. "It sounds as if the barn was falling down."
He ran out of doors. The racket came from the barn. There was no doubt
of that. And he could hear Spot barking.
Farmer Green hurried across the yard. Somehow he guessed that Johnnie
and his helpers had a hand in whatever was going on. Farmer Green did
not run toward the broad front door of the barn. Instead he circled to
the back of the barn and peeped around the corner. What he saw caused
him no great surprise.
VII
CAUGHT!
There was a good deal of giggling and loud whispering at the back door
of the barn. It ceased instantly when Farmer Green cried "Stop that!" in
a loud voice.
Johnnie Green and his friends looked startled--and sheepish, too.
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