Well, I couldn't stay up there forever; so at last I got down, but I kept in the thick woods and on the lookout all the time.
All I could get to eat was berries and what was left over from breakfast.
By the time it was night I was pretty hungry.

So when it was good and dark I slid out from shore before moonrise and paddled over to the Illinois bank--about a quarter of a mile.

I went out in the woods and cooked a supper, and I had about made up my mind I would stay there all night when I hear a PLUNKETY-PLUNK, PLUNKETY-PLUNK, and says to myself, horses coming; and next I hear people's voices.

I got everything into the canoe as quick as I could, and then went creeping through the woods to see what I could find out.

I hadn't got far when I hear a man say: "We better camp here if we can find a good place; the horses is about beat out.