They are expectin' reinforcements of course, or they wouldn't make a stand." "But we must see what kind of a position they have taken up," said Obed.
"Seeing is telling and you know that when we get back to Colonel Moore we've got to tell everything, or we might as well have stayed behind." "You're the real article, all wool an' a yard wide, Obed White," said the Ring Tailed Panther.

"Now I think we'd better hitch our horses here to these bushes an' creep as close as we can without gettin' our heads knocked off.

They might hear the horses when they wouldn't hear us." "Good idea," said Obed White.

"Nothing risk, nothing see." They tethered the horses to the low bushes, marking well the place, as the heavy, white fog was exceedingly deceptive, distorting and exaggerating when it did not hide.

Then the three went forward, side by side.