"You are not to come down.

Joe is coming up with the horses." "We have got plenty of time yet," Dave said, as soon as the string of horses had started on their way up; "it aint much past two o'clock yet, and it will be pretty nigh six hours afore we can make a start.

There is a good fire, and we have kept down thirty pounds of flour; we shall have time to bake that into bread before we start.

We shan't have much time for baking when we are once off, you can bet your boots." Dick looked on with some wonder at the quiet and deliberate manner in which Dave mixed his dough.
"By the way, Dick," the latter said, looking up, "we have divided that lot of gold we got here ourselves into five lots, and put one lot into the blankets on each of our riding horses; it is like enough that if we carry our own scalps back to the Settlements we shan't get any of the four baggage ponies there with us.

There is about twelve pound of gold in each blanket, so suppose we have to let the other ponies go, we shan't have made a bad job out of our journey after all." "Have you filled the water-skins, Dave ?" "We filled the five small skins we carry ourselves, and one of the others we daren't carry.