It may cost us a couple of days' quarrying.

Perhaps all the better for that; the Indians are pretty sure to keep about the waggons for a day or so.

They'll find enough there to amuse them.

Our work will depend a good deal on what sort of a stone they've rolled over the hole.

You remember what size the boulder was ?" "'Twas a largish pebble; looked to me at least ten feet every way.