"As it is, we've borrowed a good bit of money that we've got to pay back." "Exactly," agreed Driggs, "and you want to pay the other money back before you pay me.

Yes; I'll take the job at cost---twenty dollars, and I'll throw in the use of one of my teams and trucks to come up here and get the canoe." "But I'm afraid, sir, that we'd be a very long time paying you." "No, you won't," Driggs disputed.

"I don't allow long time bills, but I'll show you a way to pay me back fairly early, if you boys have the energy---and I believe you have.

Now, you see, first off, boys, we'll need a lot of birch bark.

I haven't any in stock, and the kind that is sound and good for canoe building is scarce these days.