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Dain Waris was awake, and a bright fire was burning before his sleeping-place, which resembled a rude shrine. The only son of nakhoda Doramin answered his greeting kindly. Tamb' Itam began by handing him the ring which vouched for the truth of the messenger's words. Dain Waris, reclining on his elbow, bade him speak and tell all the news.

Sami climbed down from his sleeping-place, stepped outside and went a little way farther around the house, which stood directly in front of the shed. Then he knew everything about it there stood the house with the garden, where he had taken the beautiful coach; right before him was the railway station he was in Aigle again. Only a little way farther in the train and he would be at home!

Have you done your breakfast? Let us go out, and I will show you our home." I rose and went to my sleeping-place to fetch my hat. When I returned, Mr. Carson for after all that was his name, though he would never allow it to be spoken had come into the hut. He felt better now, he said, and would accompany us on our walk if Stella would give him an arm.

"Stay," cried Harry, "if we get it up into this fork it will serve as a back to our sleeping-place, and the rope passed two or three times backwards and forwards will secure the sides." Harry had his axe in his belt. "We must cut some boughs to raise the sides, lest we should stray in our sleep and tumble overboard."

"But he has no dagger, M. Antragues," cried Chicot, who had just arrived. "So much the worse for him; it is not my fault," said Antragues. The place where this terrible combat was to take place was sequestered and shaded by trees. It was generally frequented only by children, who came to play there during the day, or by drunkards or robbers, who made a sleeping-place of it by night.

The gentleman, on hearing Phil's request to be permitted a sleeping-place in the barn, was rather surprised at his wretched notion of comfort than at the request itself. "Certainly, Timmins, let him sleep there," he replied; "give him sacks and straw enough. I dare say he will feel the privilege a luxury, poor devil, after his fatigue. Give him his breakfast in the morning, Timmins.

Mirren was curious to see what Archie had been doing, but he took her first to the rising ground, back in the bush, where he had decided to build his house, and then showed her his crops. The rest of the day he spent in cutting and setting up poles to make a shelter that would serve as a cookhouse during the day and a sleeping-place for himself at night.

The tavern would be crowded to its utmost the judge having the best room, and the lawyers being put in what was left, late comers being lucky to find even a sleeping-place on the floor.

The sun had set long before we reached the bottom, and through the darkness, we had to climb up over the steep dugway in the sandy clay to the village, which we reached at seven. The little room supplied us for a sleeping-place was clean and neat, the floor was strewn with fresh and fragrant pine-needles, and the wooden beds were supplied with petates.

"I wish that we had gone a couple of hours ago; the moon is in the sky, and we could have seen our way." They rose to their feet, and looked about them; they could see no one in the hut. Presently the old man appeared from behind a piece of an old sail, which served to screen off his sleeping-place.