I'll die, I know I will, if I do.

Oh, what shall I do?
What shall I do ?" "Why did your comrades leave you ?" "Because I was not so strong as they; because I could not pack as much or as long.

And they laughed at me and left me." "Have you ever roughed it ?" Frona asked.
"No." "You look well put up and strong.

Weigh probably one hundred and sixty-five ?" "One hundred-and seventy," he corrected.
"You don't look as though you had ever been troubled with sickness.
Never an invalid ?" "N-no." "And your comrades?
They are miners ?" "Never mining in their lives.

They worked in the same establishment with me.