Then worn nature took its toll, and his eyelids drooped.

Before he was aware that he was sleepy he was asleep.
"You might do as Red Coat has done, Dagaeoga," said Tayoga.

"I can watch for us all, and it is wise in the forest to take sleep when we can." "I'll try," said Robert, and he tried so successfully that in a few minutes he too slumbered, with his figure outstretched, and his head on his arm.

Tayoga made a circle about three hundred yards in diameter about them, but finding no hostile sign came back and lay on the turf near them.

He relaxed his figure again and closed his eyes, which may have seemed strange but which was not so in the case of Tayoga.