Has anyone got anything to eat ?" There was a deep growl in the negative.
"Well, we have brought a couple of sheep with us, and as we have carried them something like a mile, you had better handle them by turns.

We will strike off into the bush and put another three or four miles between us and the jail, and then light a fire and have a meal." Two of the men came forward and took the sheep.

Then they turned off from the road, and taking their direction from a star, followed it for an hour.
"I think we have got far enough now," the man called Captain Wild said.
"You had better cut down the bushes, and we will make a fire." "But how are we to light it ?" one of them exclaimed in a tone of consternation.

"I don't suppose we have got flint and steel or tinder box among us." "Oh, we can manage that!" the Captain said.

"Get a heap of dried leaves here first, then some wood, and we will soon have a blaze." His orders were obeyed.