The first thing is, not to be a coward.
Remember, when the Titanic went down, the band was playing. There have been
a couple of million people killed in the last two years. Who are you, to be
standing here crying like a baby?"
Oh boy, that hit the girl if it didn't hit the fellow. She just got up and
grabbed Harry by the hand and said, "I'm _not_ a coward. I _can_ be brave."
"All right," he said; "we've got about eight minutes. Sit down and be
calm. These boys are scouts. Take a lesson from them."
_Oh, didn't I admire that fellow!_ I bet the girl did, too. Gee, you
couldn't blame her.
"There ought to be some axes here," he said; "hustle and turn things over."
Illustration #4 "We chopped away the brush to make a long clear space."
Oh boy, it didn't take us long to have that shanty inside out. We found
five axes.
"All right," Harry said; "now we've got just one slim chance and it all
depends upon how fast we can work. We've got to chop down and tear up a
line of brush and start a fire back to meet the other one. Everybody get
busy-woman's place is on the fire line; _hustle!_"
Oh boy, you should have seen that girl who had been crying.
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