It's the oldest of all tricks to hide your trail, but it is still the best." They found the brook only a few hundred yards farther on, and extended their walk along its pebbly bed fully a mile and a half as a precaution, keeping to their wading until they could emerge on rocky ground, where they left no trail.
"It will be only chance now that will bring them down on us," said Willet.

"Do you think, Lieutenant, that after such a long walk you could manage another bear steak ?" "If the company will join me!" replied Grosvenor.

"I don't wish to show bad manners." "I'll join you," said Willet, speaking for the others, "and I think we'll make a brief camp on that wooded hill there." "Why on a hill, Mr.Willet?
Why not in a hollow where it seems to me we would be better hidden ?" "Because, besides hiding ourselves, we want to see, and you can see better from a height than from a valley.

In the bushes there we'll have a view all about us, and I don't think our enemies can come too near, unseen by us.

When we get into the thicket on the hill, Lieutenant, you can resume that pleasant nap that you did not finish.
Eight or ten hours more of sleep will be just the thing for you." "All of you sleep a while," said Black Rifle.