Then I would fall back in pretended (and some real) alarm, and--Andrew would come up and draw his attention by a similar feint, while I made off with a couple more pieces.

After a few hours c this strategy, we found ourselves the possessors of some dozen planks, with which we made a lean-to, that formed a tolerable shelter for our heads and the upper portion of our bodies.

As the boards were not over five feet long, and the slope reduce the sheltered space to about four-and-one-half feet, it left the lower part of our naked feet and legs to project out-of-doors.

Andrews used to lament very touchingly the sunburning his toe-nails were receiving.
He knew that his complexion was being ruined for life, and all the Balm of a Thousand Flowers in the world would not restore his comely ankles to that condition of pristine loveliness which would admit of their introduction into good society again.

Another defect was that, like the fun in a practical joke, it was all on one side; there was not enough of it to go clear round.