Let's knock together another boat or two.

I'd rather be safe than sorry, gentlemen; and believe me, she's heavy water yonder." "I've never seed the Kaw so full," asserted Jackson, "an' I've crossed her twenty times in spring flood.

Do what ye like, you-all--ole Missoury's goin' to take her slow an' keerful." "Half of you Liberty men are a bunch of damned cowards!" sneered Woodhull.
There was silence.

An icy voice broke it.
"I take it, that means me ?" said Will Banion.
"It does mean you, if you want to take it that way," rejoined his enemy.
"I don't believe in one or two timid men holding up a whole train." "Never mind about holding up the train--we're not stopping any man from crossing right now.

What I have in mind now is to ask you, do you classify me as a coward just because I counsel prudence here ?" "You're the one is holding back." "Answer me! Do you call that to me ?" "I do answer you, and I do call it to you then!" flared Woodhull.
"I tell you, you're a liar, and you know it, Sam Woodhull! And if it pleases your friends and mine, I'd like to have the order now made on unfinished business." Not all present knew what this meant, for only a few knew of the affair at the rendezvous, the Missourians having held their counsel in the broken and extended train, where men might travel for days and not meet.
But Woodhull knew, and sprang to his feet, hand on revolver.