“How do we get there?”
“Walk.”
“Then I don’t believe I’ll go.”
And it proved useless to urge him.
The others, however, were ready enough to go, and soon they were on their way.
“I don’t miss dot!” declared the fat Dutch boy, as he puffed along with the others. “Dot jam peen goin’ to take a look at me. I pet dot jam can broke me uf id tried.”
“I think you have had quite enough experience as river driver,” laughed Frank. “You had better let some other person break the jam.”
“Possibly you do not know the danger of breaking a jam?” put in the young lumberman.
“How vos id done?”