Do you think that you can manage it, Otter, or must I ?" "It comes into my head, Baas, that we may learn a lesson from this Xavier.

I might forget something in the canoe, and the sentry might help me to find it after you have passed the gates.

For the rest I am quick and strong and silent." "Quick and strong and silent you must be.

A noise, and all is lost." Then they crept to the canoe which they had selected and loosened her.
They embarked and Otter took the paddle.

First he let her float gently down stream and under cover of the shore for a distance of about fifty yards.