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`` I 've done some trying . '' `` Well , now , we 'll go out to-morrow evening and try once more . What do you think of the weather , Quonab ? '' `` Storm begin noon and last three days , '' was the brief answer , as the red man walked away . `` That settles it , '' said Rolf ; `` we wait . '' Van was surprised , and all the more so when in an hour the sky grew black and heavy rain set in , with squalls . `` How in the name of Belshazzar 's weather bugler does he tell ? ''