"They think they're certain of a victory, and they would not dream of retiring." "And we have more long waiting in the dark to do ?" "I warned you.

There is no other way to fight such enemies.

We must never make the mistake of undervaluing them." Captain Colden sighed.

He had a gallant heart, and he and his troop had made a fine parade through the streets of Philadelphia, before he started for the frontier, but he had expected to meet the French in the open, perhaps with a bugle playing, and he would charge at the head of his men, waving the neat small sword, now buckled to his side.
Instead he lay in a black thicket, awaiting the attack of creeping savages.

Nevertheless, he put down his pride for the third time, and resolved to trust the four who had come so opportunely to his aid, and who seemed to be so thoroughly at home in the wilderness.
Another hour dragged its weary length away, and there was no sound of anything stirring in the forest.