Our difficulty will be to prevent them from making a rush at all the windows together.

If they were to get there, they could riddle us with balls." "Could we block them up, Sahib ?" "That is just what I was thinking," Dick replied.

"We might try, anyhow.

It will be an hour and a half before they are down here.

It must be past four now, and in another hour daylight will begin to break.
"There is any amount of the old thatch down on the floor.