"Well, then, ye may depend upon it, there was nae time to be lost.

And now here is enough said; gang you to your sleep, lad, and I'll watch." Accordingly, I lay down to sleep; a little peaty earth had drifted in between the top of the two rocks, and some bracken grew there, to be a bed to me; the last thing I heard was still the crying of the eagles.
I dare say it would be nine in the morning when I was roughly awakened, and found Alan's hand pressed upon my mouth.
"Wheesht!" he whispered.

"Ye were snoring." "Well," said I, surprised at his anxious and dark face, "and why not ?" He peered over the edge of the rock, and signed to me to do the like.
It was now high day, cloudless, and very hot.

The valley was as clear as in a picture.

About half a mile up the water was a camp of red-coats; a big fire blazed in their midst, at which some were cooking; and near by, on the top of a rock about as high as ours, there stood a sentry, with the sun sparkling on his arms.