You better go take it back." To this Percy strongly objected.

He was going out on a sort of a bear-hunt, and to him half the pleasure would be lost if he did not carry a gun.

I am not a coward, but a boy with a gun is a terror to me.

My expression may have intimated my state of mind, for Mr.
Larramie said to me that we had now gone so far that it would be a pity to send Percy back, and that he did not think there would be any danger, for his boy had been taught how to carry a gun properly.
"We are all out-of-door people and sportsmen," he said, "and we begin early.

But I suppose what you are thinking about is the danger of some of us ending soon.