He then handed him the twopenny and the penny loaves, which were all his stock had reached to the purchase of, and left him, saying,-- 'I maun awa' to my tay, Shargar.

I'll fess ye a cauld tawtie het again, gin Betty has ony.

Lie still, and whatever ye do, dinna come oot o' that.' The last injunction was entirely unnecessary.
'Eh, Bob, I'm jist in haven!' said the poor creature, for his skin began to feel the precious possibility of reviving warmth in the distance.
Now that he had gained a new burrow, the human animal soon recovered from his fears as well.

It seemed to him, in the novelty of the place, that he had made so many doublings to reach it, that there could be no danger of even the mistress of the house finding him out, for she could hardly be supposed to look after such a remote corner of her dominions.
And then he was boxed in with the bed, and covered with no end of warm garments, while the friendly darkness closed him and his shelter all round.

Except the faintest blue gleam from one of the panes in the roof, there was soon no hint of light anywhere; and this was only sufficient to make the darkness visible, and thus add artistic effect to the operation of it upon Shargar's imagination--a faculty certainly uneducated in Shargar, but far, very far from being therefore non-existent.