"I'm sorry of that.

I wish it wouldn't break before he overtook us." "S'pose we stop an' make ready," said Shif'less Sol.

"You know we ain't bound to be in a big hurry, an' it won't help any o' us to get a soakin'." "You're shorely right, Sol," said Jim Hart.

"We're bound to take the best uv care uv ourselves." They looked around with expert eyes, and quickly chose a stony outcrop or hollow in the side of a hill, just above which grew two gigantic beeches very close together.

Then it was wonderful to see them work, so swift and skillful were they.