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`` As often as you like , Giant . '' `` Hand 'em over , then . Even ef it 's night they 've got a way o ' cuttin ' through the dark , an ' I feel it 's ` bout time now fur the Sioux to be comin ' . They like to jump on an unsuspectin ' foe ` bout midnight . '' He took an unusually long look and handed the glasses back to Will . Then he whispered to both the lad and the hunter : `` I could make 'em out snakin ' theirselves up the pass nigh flat on the rock . '' `` They hope to get so near in the dark that they can spring up and rush us . ''