It is lucky that we bought these thick cloaks, at Welshpool; for without them we should have been soaked to the skin, hours ago." "Well, as we have been wetted to the waist a score of times, in the streams, I don't see that it would have mattered much, if the rest of us had been wet through." "Well, now let us look for a shelter." After searching for half an hour, they found a spot where a wall of shaly rock barred their way.

At one spot some of this had fallen in, forming a sort of shallow cave, some three feet deep.
"This is not a bad beginning, Roger, but we must try and make it a great deal more snug." They first cut down some young fir poles, and placed them so as to form a sort of penthouse against the wall.

On these they piled a number of branches, of the same trees, until it was over a foot in thickness.
"So far, so good," Oswald said.

"Now, Roger, look about for a fallen tree.

We have passed scores on our way.