Perhaps it would be better to leap down and make a fight of it." "We might shoot some of them first," Charlie said.

"How many charges have you ?" "I have only two, besides one in the barrel." "And I have only three," Charlie said.

"Powder has run very short.
The captain was saying, yesterday, that we must send to the village and try to get some more.

Still, six shots will help us." "Not much, sir.

There must be thirty or forty of them now.