It was answered presently in a faint note from the opposite slope, and, then sitting down, he waited patiently.

He knew that Tayoga and Willet would come, and, after a while, they appeared, striding eagerly through the forest.

Then Robert rose, his heart full of gratitude and pride, and, in a grand manner, he did the honors.
"Come, good comrades," he said.

"Come to the banquet.

Have a steak of a bear, the finest, juiciest, tenderest bear that was ever killed.
Have two steaks, three steaks, four steaks, any number of them.