Be careful not to worry your beast, for though but little skilled in horses, reason teaches that breath is needful in a hard push, and that a weary leg makes a dull race.

Be ready to mind the signal, when you hear a whine from old Hector.

The first will be to make ready; the second, to edge out of the crowd; and the third, to go--am I understood ?" "Perfectly, perfectly," said Middleton, trembling in his excessive eagerness to put the plan in instant execution, and pressing the little arm, which encircled his body, to his heart.

"Perfectly.

Hasten, hasten." "Ay, the beast is no sloth," continued the trapper in the Teton language, as if he continued the discourse, edging cautiously through the dusky throng at the same time, until he found himself riding at the side of Paul.