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"If you ask for my opinion," said Bob Hale, "I say we had better return to Parkville at once, and not wait to be driven back."
"It is easy enough for you to say that," replied Tom Rush, who had joined us. "You live there, and all you have to do is to go home; but what are the fellows who reside a hundred miles from there to do?"