They are true grit to the backbone, but they are rough outspoken men, and, on a service when a foot carelessly placed on a dried twig, or a word spoken above a whisper, may bring a crowd of yelping redskins upon us, and cost every man his scalp, they would speak sharply to the king himself, if he were on the scout with them, and you must not take offence at any rough word that may be said." James laughed, and said that he should not care how much he was blown up, and that he should thankfully receive any lessons from such masters of forest craft.
"Very well," Captain Rogers said.

"In that case, it is settled.

I will let you have a pair of moccasins.

You cannot go walking about in the woods in those boots.

You had better get a rifle.