'Be ye sleepy ?' he asked in cross accents of the boy.
The lad replied rather timidly in the negative.
'Then,' said the shepherd, 'I'll get me home-along, and rest for a few hours.

There's nothing to be done here now as I can see.

The ewes can want no more tending till daybreak--'tis beyond the bounds of reason that they can.

But as the order is that one of us must bide, I'll leave 'ee, d'ye hear.

You can sleep by day, and I can't.