“What can we kill?”
“Well, kangaroo meat isn’t bad, and we can bring down a few birds occasionally.”
“Then we shall need guns?”
“Yes, it will be well to have them.”
This was another expense upon which Harry had not calculated. He began to think that he had been very improvident. The professor would readily have left him twenty pounds more, and as it would have been repaid with his own money, he was sorry he had not availed himself of it.
“How much do you think the supplies will cost?” asked Harry.
“Well, you had better let me have ten pounds. I think that will be sufficient.”
“For the whole or for our share?” asked Harry pointedly.
“For your share,” answered Fletcher, after a pause. “It seems to me you are very suspicious.”
Really he had intended to make the two boys pay for the whole stock of provisions and save his own purse, for he had in reality as much money as they.