human
If we can get a deer within the next day or so, or even a few ducks or partridges, we may make it, said Horace.
gpt
But I've noticed that game is always scarce when you need it most. Now if we turned back and tried to recover our outfit, we should certainly have to fight the trappers, and probably we'd be worsted, for they outmatch us in weapons. One of us might be killed, and we'd be almost certain to lose the foxes.
human
Trade these foxes for some flour and bacon? I'd starve first!
gpt
So would I! cried Macgregor.
human
But we won't starve. We didn't starve last winter, when we hadn't a match or a grain of powder, and when the mercury was below zero most of the time, too.
gpt
Well, we'll go on, if you say so, said Horace.
human
It's a mighty dangerous trip, but I don't see what else we can do.
gpt
Forward it is, then!
human
And hang the risk!
gpt
Do you think those men will really follow us, Horace?
human
Sure to, replied his brother.
gpt
It'll take them a few hours to patch up their canoe, but they 're probably better canoemen than we are, and we'll have to work mighty hard to keep ahead of them.
human
They'll have to work mighty hard to keep up with us,