If those men are up that way they knew where they were going.

They're not pioneers, they're kidnappers." "Slady, you're a wonder." "Except when it comes to climbing trees," Tom said.
At Catskill they hired a skiff and rowed out to about the middle of the river.

From there Hervey was greatly surprised at what he saw.

His bantering mood was quieted at last and he became sober as Tom, holding the oar handles with one hand, pointed up to a mountain behind the bordering heights along the river.

Upon this, as upon others, were the faintest suggestions of lines.