They went off up a steep climb, and I said I'd wander around below till they got back, or perhaps ride back to camp; but, when I tried to find the camp, it wasn't where I had left it." "Well, you've got to lie down and sleep awhile," said the girl decidedly.
"You can't keep going like that.

It'll kill you.

You lie down, and I'll watch, and get dinner.

I'm going to cook that bird." He demurred, but in the end she had her way; for he was exceedingly weary, and she saw it.

So he let her spread the old coat down for him while he gathered some wood for a fire, and then he lay down and watched her simple preparations for the meal.