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`` Then you shall try , '' said Mr Rogers , quietly ; `` on condition , mind , that you will neither of you do anything rash , but follow out either my advice or that of the General , whom I feel disposed to trust more and more . '' The country seemed to grow more romantic and grand the farther they trekked on away from civilisation , and they travelled now very few hundred yards without seeing something new and full of interest . Game was so abundant that there was no difficulty in keeping up a plentiful supply . Dinny even threatened to lose the frying-pan , for , as he said , he was frying steak morning , noon , and night ; but as he loved dearly to fry one particularly juicy piece always for a gentleman named Dinny , there was not much fear of his keeping his word . But somehow Dinny did not add to the harmony of the expedition . He proved himself again and again to be an arrant coward ; and , coward-like , he tried to tyrannise over the weaker . He was afraid of the General ; and when , upon one or two occasions , he had quarrelled with Peter or Dirk , those gentlemen had displayed so much pugnacity that Dinny had prudently resolved to quarrel with them no more .