The dose we've gin the skunks may keep 'em off for a while--not long, I reck'n.

Darnation! Thar's five o' our fellows wiped out already.

It looks ugly, an' like enuf we've all got to go under." "Don't you think our best way will be to make a dash for it, and try to cut through them.

If we stay here they'll starve us out.

We haven't water enough in the waggons to give us a drink apiece." "I know all that, an' hev thort o' 't.