“Stop that noise!” he commanded. “Don’t yell until you are hurt.”
“I want to yell now. Maybe I can’t yell after I’m hurt,” returned Chunky.
“Guide! What is it?” roared the Professor, the perspiration standing out over his face, as Tad observed when the fire blazed up.
Anvik finished what he was doing before he answered. Then he spoke without looking up.
“Him mountain fall down.”
“Is it an ice slide?” shouted Tad.
“Ugh!”
“An avalanche, do you mean?”
“Yes; an ice-avalanche,” explained the Professor. “I have seen them in other parts of the world.”
“Sun make him ice weak; ice fall down,” explained Anvik.