"Trouble is," Cooper answered, "we spent about the last of our money on the chain saw to cut this wood and on Chuck's trip to Washington. To build a stockade, we need a tractor. We'd kill ourselves if we tried to rassle that many logs bare-handed."
"Maybe we could catch some of those horses running around out there."
"Have you ever broken a horse?"
"No, that's one thing I never tried."
"Me, either. How about you, Chuck?"
"Not me," said the ex-ambassador extraordinary bluntly.
Cooper squatted down beside the coals of the cooking fire and twirled the spit. Upon the spit were three grouse and half a dozen quail. The huge coffee pot was sending out a nose-tingling aroma. Biscuits were baking in the reflector.
"We've been here six weeks," he said, "and we're still living in a tent and cooking on an open fire. We better get busy and get something done."
"The stockade first," said Adams, "and that means a tractor."
"We could use the helicopter."