And if you could find and bring me here a draught of water from the brook or from some spring, I should be ever grateful.

I am sore athirst and weary, too." The child was nevertheless much pleased with his nest, and forthwith curled himself up in it like a young dormouse, delighting in the conviction that no attendants despatched by his mother to capture him would ever find him here.

Boys have been young pickles ever since the world began, and were just as full of pranks in the fifteenth century as they are now.

Edward had: a full share of boyhood's mischievous delight in his own way, and owing to the strong will and the ever-present vigilance of his mother, he had not had many chances of indulging his natural craving for independence.

Therefore he rejoiced the more in it now, and was quite determined to return to his royal parents at such time only as it suited his own whim.
Paul was willing enough to do the behest of the prince, and stayed only to make him comfortable before starting off on the quest for water.