Have I been shouting ?" "You shouted just before you fell." "What did I shout ?" I told him, though it bore little meaning to my mind.

He looked sharply at us, and then he shrugged his shoulders.
"It's the words of a song," said he.

"Well, the question is, What am I to do now?
I didn't thought I was so weak.

Where did you get the water ?" I pointed towards the burn, and he staggered off to the bank.

There he lay down upon his face, and he drank until I thought he would never have done.