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full view. Yes, by all means, it is best to take to the 
water." 
" To the water, then ! " cried Robert, seizing an axe, 
and starting for the point indicated by Hugh. 
To the water ! " echoed all, and a general stampede 
toward the lake would have followed had not the leader 
checked it. 
" Wait ! wait ! " he called out, laughing. " There's 
work here for some to do. Nat, do you straighten out 
all the pieces of cord you can find in the packs. They 
must be used for fastening the cross pieces together. 
Hugh, you may busy yourself about camp. Take down 
the tent, to begin with, and pack it up for transporta- 
tion." 
" But, father, I thought you said we should stay here 
another day. Sha'n't we need the tent — ? " 
" Another day, my boy, but not another night ! No, 
we shall take the ^ night boat,' and before sunrise to-mor- 
row we must be thirty miles from here, if it can be done." 
Mr. Dutton now dispatched the two guides into the 
woods, to reconnoitre. They joined him shortly afterward 
at the water's edge, and reported all quiet ; no new signs 
of the enemy. 
How those axes did flash through the air ! Branches 
were lopped off from the fallen trees where it was neces- 
sary, but for the most part they had been broken or 
rubbed away in the wild rush they must have recently 
made from their native heights, in the current of a glacial 
