Wessner may not have the pluck, unless he is half drunk.

Then he'd be a terror.

And the next time--" Freckles hesitated.
"What ?" "It will be a question of who shoots first and straightest." "Then the only thing for me to do is to double the guard and bring the gang here the first minute possible.

As soon as I feel that we have the rarest of the stuff out below, we will come.

The fact is, in many cases, until it is felled it's difficult to tell what a tree will prove to be.