In our condition, it was too dark.

I began to grow sleepy, also, and thought I should like to exchange the hillside for my bed.

Turkey made no objection, so we trudged home again; not without sundry starts and quick glances to make sure that the bull was neither after us on the road, nor watching us from behind this bush or that hillock.

Turkey never left me till he saw me safe up the ladder; nay, after I was in bed, I spied his face peeping in at the window from the topmost round of it.

By this time the east had begun to begin to glow, as Allister, who was painfully exact, would have said; but I was fairly tired now, and, falling asleep at once, never woke until Mrs.Mitchell pulled the clothes off me, an indignity which I keenly felt, but did not yet know how to render impossible for the future..