We shall find it pretty cold before morning, and there is nothing like a good meal to warm one up again." "Did you get the bow and arrows at Chivasso ?" "Yes, sir.

I went out and bought them as soon as we got there.

I wanted them, I told the man, for a boy of ten years old, but all he had were a good deal too long, which I was glad of, for a child's bow would hardly have been strong enough, so I made him cut one down until it was not more than three feet long.

That way I shall be able, as we agreed, to carry it under my doublet.

Of course it will make me walk stiffly, and there will be no possibility of sitting down, but that matters not at all.