CHAPTER X.
A DISTURBANCE IN CAMP.
Jake Elliott got very little sleep that night.

Indeed it was nearly daylight when he fell asleep and it was one of Sam's marching rules to march early.

He waked the boys every morning as soon as it was sufficiently light for them to begin preparing breakfast, and by sunrise they were ready to begin their day's march.
This morning it was cloudy and there were symptoms of a coming storm.
Sam was up at the first breaking of day, and he hurriedly waked the boys.
"Come, boys," he said, "we must hurry or we shall be too late to cross a river that's ahead of us, before it begins to rise.

Get breakfast over as quickly as possible, for we mustn't fail to make seventeen miles to-day, and if it rains heavily it'll be bad marching in this swamp.

There's higher ground ahead of us for to-morrow, but we mustn't be caught in here by high water in the creeks." The boys sprang up quickly and made all haste in the preparation of breakfast.