“We must have water to drink.”
“Vater? Goot cracious! Didt you oxpect to up drink der whole lake right avay soon?”
“Not exactly, but we weren’t right sure it was suitable for drinking purposes. It’s all right, is it?”
“Vale, it vas vet, undt uf you drink it I don’t peliefe it vill disagreement by you. Howefer, uf it didt not like you, there vas a spring in der voods pack somevhere. I could not say how near it vas avay.”
“Well,” laughed Rod, “although that’s plenty indefinite, I reckon we can find it. You’ll come early in the morning with the butter, eggs and milk, will you?”
“Yah, der putter, eggs undt milks vill pring me early,” assured Carl.
“And then you are to hike to Pemstock and tote our canoe in to us.”
“‘Hike’ and ‘tote’ didt not understood me,” replied Carl; “but I vill go undt dot canoe get tomorrow as soon as possibility.”
“That’s what I mean,” said Grant.
As the German boy gathered up the reins to back the wagon round, Piper stepped forward and checked him with an uplifted hand.