5/18 If they get 'round me, you, what-you-say, pickle 'em off." But the expected attack did not come. An hour they waited, and a hour after that. Still no crowd of burly men came surging toward them from the Blackburn camp, still no attempt was made to wrest from their possession the waterway which they had taken over as their rightful property. "They've broken off our end entirely." "Ah, _oui_! But we will stay here. |