"They were over-driven to start with, and that was what knocked them up; but the blacks will begin to feel themselves safe today, and will let them go their own pace.

Sheep can do twenty miles in a day, if not hurried." "Well, at any rate," Reuben said, "we will give our horses a couple of hours' rest.

It is just eleven o'clock now, and I should think everyone is ready for a meal." There was a chorus of assent.

The troop dismounted at once.

The girths were loosened, the bits taken from the horses' mouths, and they were turned loose to graze in the long grass at the foot of the hill.