“ I don't think I can go any more; my boots are so heavy I can't pull 'em;” and Robby sat down on a stone quite worn out.
“ Then we must stay here all night. I don't care much, if snakes don't come.”
“ I'm frightened of snakes. I can't stay all night. Oh, dear! I don't like to be lost,” and Rob puckered up his face to cry, when suddenly a thought occurred to him, and he said, in a tone of perfect confidence,
“ Marmar will come and find me she always does; I ain't afraid now.”
“ She won't know where we are.”
“ She didn't know I was shut up in the ice-house, but she found me. I know she'll come,” returned Robby, so trustfully, that Nan felt relieved, and sat down by him, saying, with a remorseful sigh,
“ I wish we hadn't run away.”
“ You made me; but I don't mind much Marmar w
