Let me show you." And taking a strand of the long moss he scraped the greenish gray outside off, leaving a black strand like a horse hair.
"There," he said, "Sam told me once that it's the soft outside part that holds water, while the inside is dry almost always.

Now why can't we scrape the outside off of a great deal of moss and have the dry inside ready for Sam to sleep on when he comes back?
It'll surprise him and he'll be glad too.

He never cared for himself much, but he'll be glad to see that we care for him." The plan pleased little Judie wonderfully well.

She was always delighted to do anything for Sam, and now that she was uneasy about him, and kept thinking of him as dead or dying or sick somewhere, and could hardly keep her tears back, nothing could have pleased her so well as to work for his comfort.

Tom and Joe went out after dark, and brought in a large lot of moss, and the next morning all went to work, Judie made very little progress with her scraping, but she kept steadily at it, and it served its purpose in making her less miserable than before.