Looks a lot like we're going to get our first slice uh winter.

We've been playing big luck that we didn't get it before now; and that last bunch uh beef was sure rollicky and hard to handle--we'd uh had a picnic with all the trimmings if a blizzard had caught us with them on our hands.

As it is, we're all dead on our feet.

I expect to sleep about four days without stopping for meals, if you ask _me_." One cannot wonder that Charming Billy heard thankfully the clatter of his outfit arriving, or that he left half his piece of pie uneaten and hurried off, on the plea that he must show them what to do--which would have caused a snicker among the men if they had overheard him.
He did not mind Dill following him out, nor did he greatly mind the Pilgrim remaining in the house with Miss Bridger.

The relief of being even temporarily free from the perplexities of the situation mastered all else and sent him whistling down the path to the stables..