He propped this up before the fire, and when the surface was neatly browned over, slipped it off the board and turned it over to brown the other side similarly.

This done, we divided it carefully between us, swallowed it in silence, spread our old overcoat on the ground, tucked chess-board, can, and spoon under far enough to be out of the reach of thieves, adjusted the thin blanket so as to get the most possible warmth out of it, crawled in close together, and went to sleep.
This, thank Heaven, we could do; we could still sleep, and Nature had some opportunity to repair the waste of the day.

We slept, and forgot where we were..