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to wait another day and divide the 

 moving, as we did when establish- 

 ing Camp Muscalonge. This meant 

 delay and we had been delayed 

 enough already. Iron necessity 

 would call his guests away in an- 

 other week. Bobbie pointed out 

 that the first moving had been done 

 in "two easy days, and that there- 

 fore one hard day would do the 

 other? Wouldn't it?' 



George thus challenged, did not 

 stand his ground. He merely re- 

 marked with a shrug, "You are the 

 boss." So what happened really 

 was his fault, for he knew such a 

 move to be an impossibility, and 

 should have said so. 



The outdoor man, born and reared 

 in the open, will take chances any 

 time rather than incur the possi- 

 bility of being thought cowardly. 

 Is it a sort of fatalistic attitude 

 that springs from dealing with forces 

 stronger than themselves, stronger 

 in every way, save for the uncon- 

 querable will that makes humans 

 divine ? 



So we breakfasted before day- 

 light, and tried not to notice the air 



