"Be very deaf if I couldn't! There, that's the last scrap of cake, so let's drown our troubles in sleep.

You have first turn!" "No," replied West.

"I feel too anxious to sleep! You begin." "Can't," was the reply.

"If anything, I feel more anxious than you do.
I couldn't rest!" "I wish we could canter gently on till we were seen by the Boers, and then go on full gallop right into the town!" said West.

"Would it be too dangerous ?" "Just madness!" replied Ingleborough.