human
The gasoline stove! thought Katherine.
gpt
Antha's been trying to fill it and it's exploded! And she set off like the wind toward the kitchen, from which direction terrible shrieks were puncturing the air. She did not know it, but she was yelling like a Comanche Indian all the way. She staggered into the clearing, expecting to find the kitchen tent in flames, but it was lying on the ground in a tangled mass from which apparently detached hands and feet were waving wildly.
human
What exploded?
gpt
The cans of beans, she said faintly.
human
Don't look so scared, Katherine, it's only--the--panic!
gpt
What on earth did you do?
human
I remembered that Migwan set a can of beans in the fire to heat once when we were camping and it exploded, and I thought that would be a fine way to start a panic here. So to make sure I took three cans--great big ones--and buried them in the hot ashes. When they exploded I was going to scream and make everybody come running.
gpt
Well, they exploded all right, said Katherine drily.
human
I thought the island blew up.
gpt
So did I, said Hinpoha.
human
They went up just like dynamite. The kettle was blown off the hanger and landed fifty feet away.
gpt
To say nothing of blowing the tent down,
human
Oh, said Hinpoha hastily,
gpt
Who is hiding Eeny-Meeny?
human
Why, gasped Hinpoha,
gpt
I?
human
Yes, you!
gpt
I had forgotten all about the panic, said Katherine,
human
Quick, before it's too late! said Hinpoha.
gpt
Run down and do it now while everybody's still up here. It'll take at least five minutes to get the boys out from under that tent.