Trees can be friends to you and they never go back on you, that's one thing.
I said, "He'll be all right as long as he's with Uncle Jeb." Bert said, "Yes, but we'll have to get back before camp-fire.

He'll be wandering around alone.

I'll take him up to our cabin.

Guess he'll be all right till we get back.

Temple Camp can be a mighty lonely place sometimes, Blakeley." Just the same, all the way over to the Hudson I kept thinking about Skinny and hoping he wasn't hiding away from the fellows or off all alone somewhere.