I know how precious arrows are, and now, Tayoga, since it's important for you to get back your strength faster than a wounded man ever got it back before, I think we'd better risk a fire, and broil some of these fat, juicy steaks." "It is a danger, but we will do it.

You gather the dead wood and we will build the fire beside the mouth of the cave.

Both of us can cook." It was an easy task for two such foresters to light a fire with flint and steel, and they soon had a big bed of coals.

Then they broiled the steaks on the ends of sharpened sticks, passing them back and forth quickly, in order to retain the juices.
"Now, Tayoga," announced Robert, "I have a word or two to say to you." "Then say them quickly and do not let your eloquence become a stream, because I am hungry and would eat, and where the moose steaks are plenty talk is needed but little." "I merely wished to tell you that besides being our hunter, I'm also the family doctor.

Hence I give you my instructions." "What are they, O youth of many words ?" "You can eat just as much of the moose steak as you like, and the quicker you begin the better you will please me, because my manners won't allow me to start first.