"We'll crack this last nut to-morrow." "But what if it sets in to snow?
More than two hundred and fifty yards left to do, and only to-morrow and the day after to work." "We'll have to risk it." "Will your powder hold out ?" "Yes." He regarded Bryant keenly.

"Say, what you need isn't information but sleep.

You worked all day yesterday, and all last night, and to-day again, and here it is going on midnight.

I'm going to tell you the schedule for to-morrow to calm your mind, then you roll into your blankets.

At nine o'clock in the morning all hands except the cooks go at the drills and stay by them till the stretch is holed.