Then the two lads seized him by either shoulder and shook him violently.
"Awake! Awake, Great Bear!" Tayoga chanted in his ear.

"Do you think you have gone into a cave for winter quarters?
Lo, you have slept now, like the animal for which you take your name! We knew you were exhausted, and that your eyes ached for darkness and oblivion, but we did not know it would take two nights and a day to bring back your wakefulness.
Dagaeoga and I were your true friends.

We watched over you while you slept out your mighty sleep and kept away from you the bears and panthers that would have devoured you when you knew it not.

They came more than once to look at you, and truly the Great Bear is so large that he would have made breakfast, dinner and supper for the hungriest bear or panther that ever roamed the woods." Willet sat up, sleep still heavy on his eyelids, and, for a moment or two, looked dazed.
"What do you mean, you young rascals ?" he asked.

"You don't say that I've been sleeping here two nights and a day ?" "Of course you have," replied Robert, "and I've never seen anybody sleep so hard, either.