But they were so intensely sleepy that they could scarcely keep their eyes open, and now the wilderness training of both came into use.
It was a hilly country, with many outcroppings of stone and cavelike openings in the sides of the steep but low hills, and such a place as this the boys now sought.

But it was a long hunt and they grew more tired and sleepy at every step.

They were hungry, too, but if they might only sleep they could forget that.

They heard again the hooting of owls and the wind, moaning among the leaves, made strange noises.

Once there was a crash in a thicket beside them, and they jumped in momentary alarm, but it was only a startled deer, far more scared than they, running through the bushes, and Henry was ashamed of his nervous impulse.
They found at last their resting place, a sheltered ledge of dry stone in the hollow of a hill.