“Me savvy tlail. You come. Me show.”
“Never mind, Woo. We are going to find that trail for ourselves. This isn’t the first time we have been in the mountains. You watch us,” answered Lieutenant Wingate.
Hippy crawled down the mountainside for some distance, working along, first to the right, then to the left. He observed, at the same time, that the wall on the opposite side of the canyon had a more gradual slope. Climbing the other side would be easier than the one they were now going down. There was no trace of a trail on the Overlanders’ side, but Hippy found a way to get down.
“Well?” questioned Grace, upon his return.
“We can make it.”
“Of course we can make it. We shall have to jump, though,” said Stacy.
“Suppose you jump first, then, if the jumping is good, perhaps we may follow,” suggested Emma.
“Jump? Why, you wouldn’t dare jump off from a silver dollar,” declared Chunky.
“Produce one and see whether I dare or not,” offered Emma.
“I—I don’t think I have one,” stammered Stacy amid laughter.