Down by a little brook a few rods away he cut some balsams and returned presently with his arms full of the fragrant boughs.

These he dried in the heat of the fire and spread in a thick mat on the ground under the lean-to.

It was now warm with heat, reflected from the side of the great rock it faced.

The light of the leaping flames fell upon the travelers.
"Ye see ye can make yer own weather and fill it with sunshine if ye only know how," said Samson, as he sat down and brushed a coal out of the ashes and swiftly picked it up with his fingers and put it into the bowl of his clay pipe.

"Mother and I read in a book that the wood was full o' sunlight all stored up and ready for us to use.