You're not what I'd call epicures, but I've never known your appetites to fail." "Nor will they," said Robert, as he and Tayoga helped themselves.

"What's the news from Britain, Dave?
You must have heard a lot when you were in Albany." "It's vague, Robert, vague.

The English are slow, just as we Americans are, too.

They're going to send out troops, but the French have dispatched a fleet and regiments already.

The fact that our colonies are so much larger than theirs is perhaps an advantage to them, as it gives them a bigger target to aim at, and our people who are trying to till their farms, will be struck down by their Indians from ambush." "And you see now what a bulwark the great League of the Hodenosaunee is to the English," said Tayoga.
"A fact that I've always foreseen," said Willet warmly.