They had made a little fire and roasted mealies.

Some of the food they gave me, and I ate it thankfully.

I was feeling better, and I think a pipe would have almost completed my cure.
But when I stood up I found that I was worse than I had thought.

The truth is, I was leg-weary, which you often see in horses, but rarely in men.

What the proper explanation is I do not know, but the muscles simply refuse to answer the direction of the will.