Inch by inch, and foot by foot, we'll manage to climb up.

You can help a little by keeping the stick coming, you know." "I get you, Hugh!" snapped the other eagerly; "and it's sure a right good scheme.

But be mighty careful you don't slip, either of you.
That fall'd break bones, even if it didn't kill you outright." "Don't worry about us, Just Smith; pay attention to your part of the contract, and things are bound to work out first-class.

Lower away, and don't poke us off our perch, please.

We've only got a risky hold below here." So saying, Hugh encouraged the other two to do their part manfully.
Even Claude was shivering less than before, as though a breath of renewed confidence might have been installed in his heart by this close contact with such a stalwart chap as Hugh Morgan.