"A few of us might do it, but the redskins would be on us in an hour or two.

I thought, when we started, as the captain would have told us to scatter, so as to give each of us some chance of getting off; but I see his plan now, and it's the only one as there is which gives us a real chance.

He is making straight for the French fort.

He reckons, no doubt, as the best part of the French troops will have marched out after the redskins." "But there would surely be enough left," James said, "to hold the fort against us; and, even if we could take it, we could not hold it an hour when they all came up." "He ain't thinking of the fort, boy, he's thinking of the boats.

We know as they have lots of 'em there, and, if we can get there a few minutes before the redskins overtake us, we may get off safe.