A small iron stove, a few utensils of tin, a huge sack which had been used for a straw bed, and a few articles of wooden furniture, were all that was to be seen.
Upon the canvas sack she seized eagerly.

Bart might be dying, or he might be recovering from some injury; in either case she had only one desire, and that was to procure for him the necessary comforts.

Having no access to hay or straw, she began rapidly to gather the bracken which was standing two and three feet high in great quantities wherever the ground was dry under the trees.

She worked with a nervous strength that was extraordinary, even to herself, after the toilsome night.

When she had filled the sack, she put it upon the floor of the lower room and went back to the canoe.