That's so, Ephraim, is it not ?" "Ay, ay, lad, if you can't run you must tack, but it seems shoal water on either bow." "We can't go to the north, so it follows that we must go to the south." "Leave the canoe ?" "It's our only chance.

We can cut through the woods and come out near this friendly house on the Richelieu.

The friar will lose our trail then, and we'll have no more trouble with him, if he stays on the St.
Lawrence." "There's nothing else for it," said Captain Ephraim ruefully.

"It's not my way to go by land if I can get by water, and I have not been a fathom deep in a wood since King Philip came down on the province, so you must lay the course and keep her straight, Amos." "It is not far, and it will not take us long.

Let us get over to the southern bank and we shall make a start.