At all events we'll dig the canoe and ride in it.

The rivers will be high, and it will be easy travelling with the current, while there won't be any danger of getting the fever from being on the water, as there would have been before the rain when the water was low.

Come, our clothes are dry now and we must go to sleep, as we've a hard day's work before us." "How long will it take to dig out the canoe ?" asked Bob Sharp.
"One day, I hope, but it may take as much as three.

Luckily we've killed so much game to-day, that we needn't be afraid of running out of victuals.

But we must lose no time." "Oh, Sam--" began one of the boys after all had laid down for the night.
"I won't open my mouth again to-night, except to yawn," said Sam, and it was not long before the whole party were asleep..