The weather was that hot, too, it was just as pleasant sleeping under a tree as anywhere else.

So we didn't show at home more than one at a time, and took care to be ready for a bolt at any time, day or night, when the police might show themselves.
Our place was middling clear all round now, and it was hard for any one on horseback to get near it without warning; and if we could once reach the gully we knew we could run faster than any man could ride.
One night, latish, just as we were walking off to our hut there was a scratching at the door; when we opened it there was old Crib! He ran up to both of us and smelt round our legs for a minute to satisfy himself; then jumped up once to each of us as if he thought he ought to do the civil thing, wagged his stump of a tail, and laid himself down.

He was tired, and had come a long way.

We could see that, and that he was footsore too.

We knew that father wasn't so very far off, and would soon be in.