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`` These Indians are nothing to me , '' he went on at last , `` and all Indians are starving pretty much all the time , but they die just the same . But somehow , with plenty of pork and flour here and this great invention here right at hand from which nobody 's benefitting , it seems to me we must be pretty hard-hearted to sit in comfort , stuffing ourselves , while little babies are dying for scraps that we 're throwing in the river . I -- '' `` Colonel , '' exclaimed Roy at once , `` you 've said enough . Get up what you can spare and we 'll have bannocks baking in that settlement before noon . '' `` I do n't want to get you into another blizzard , '' began the colonel , yet his satisfaction was apparent . `` Do n't you worry about that , '' broke in Norman . `` I think we feel a good deal the same way about this .