He is starting now.
We will hurry.

I will fix it so you need not carry much.

It is just to make it steady for me." While he talked he was working on the stretcher.

He had a rope, and he was knotting it in a long loop to the poles.

Lorraine wondered why, until he had lifted her father and placed him on the stretcher and placed the loop over his own head and under one arm, as a ploughman holds the reins, so that his hands may be free.
"If you will carry the front," said Swan politely, "it will not be heavy for you like this.