He would gladly have lain down in the hay for a while, but that would require the ladder, and he did not now feel able to move it.

On the floor of the barn he was not safe, and he got out of it into the cornyard, where he sought the henhouse.

But there was no food there yet, and he must not linger near; for, if he were discovered, they would drive him away, and he would lose Donal Grant.

He had not seen him at breakfast, for indeed he seldom, during the summer, had a meal except supper in the house.

Gibbie, therefore, as he could not eat, ran to the burn and drank--but had no heart that morning for his projected inquiry into the state of his person.