9/31 "If this tree seems to act wrong they'll see it though at a long distance and come flying down on us." "The Great Bear is right, as always, but the wind is blowing again, and we can begin to edge in toward the shore." "So we can. Now we'll push the tree slowly toward the right. All together, but be very gentle. Robert, don't let your enthusiasm run away with you. If we depart much from the course of the wind they'll be after us again no matter how far away they are now." "They have finished their examination of the second tree," said Tayoga in his precise school English, "and now they are going to the third, which will take them a yet greater distance from us." "So they are. |