I'll feel better to-morrow." He fell asleep, but his rest was broken, for he moved his limbs and muttered now and then.

It was a heavy, gray afternoon, with a cold wind rippling the leaden pools and rustling the reeds, and the watchers felt dejected and alarmed.

Neither had any medical knowledge, and they were a very long way from the settlements.

Rocky hillsides and wet muskegs, which they could not cross with a sick companion, shut them off from all help.

Their provisions were not plentiful; and the rigorous winter would soon set in.
They scarcely spoke to each other as the afternoon wore away.