The other women had scrambled to a sitting position on the log, and were rubbing their stiffened limbs.
"I think those who stayed in camp will have died more comfortably than we shall," said one. "How are we to get any food?"
"Oh, there will be no food," Karwin answered. "Unless the flood goes down very quickly, we shall certainly starve. I do not even know where we are, and I have no weapons. Ky! none of our forefathers ever knew such a flood! It is something to have seen it!"
"'Oh, there will be no food,' Karwin answered."
"That will not do us much good when we are lying dead in the mud," said Murla shortly. "I would rather have a piece of kangaroo now than see the biggest flood that ever was in the world. I have had enough of floods! Do you think the water will come any higher?"
"How can I tell?" answered Karwin shortly. Then, because they were all tired, and frozen, and hungry, they quarrelled about it, and became almost warm in the discussion. After awhile, Karwin laughed.
"If I had a waddy I would give all three of you something to argue over," he said. "What is the use of becoming angry when there is nothing to be gained by it? It will not take us off this bank, that is certain."
"No, but it keeps us from thinking," Murla said. "When I was angry just now I quite forgot that I was hungry."