We've been through a good deal and we haven't closed our eyes for thirty-six hours.

I feel as if I had pound weights tied to my eyelids." "Two-pound weights are tied to mine." "Then we'll prove the value of my foresight in obtaining the two sets of blankets by using them at once." Each lay down between his blankets, and Ned was soon asleep, but Obed, by a violent effort, kept his eyes open.

He could never remember a time when it seemed sweeter to sleep, but he struggled continually against it.

When he saw that Ned's slumber was deep he rose and walked up and down the stream again, going a half mile in either direction.
At one point where there was a break in the fringe of trees the imprints of the mighty hoofs were numerous, and, mingled with them, were tracks made by horses' hoofs.

It was these that worried Obed so much.