"Jamie'd never be forgettin' that he crosses no mesh comin' from camp however turned about he is.

He'd never be so turned about as that." "We'll search all the country, then, between this marsh and the brook," suggested Doctor Joe.
They could not know that Jamie, on the opposite side of the marsh, was at that moment in a snug shelter, and had been listening to their rifle shots, and supposing them to be the breaking of dead branches in the wind.

Jamie was too small and too inexperienced to face and weather the storm on the marsh, unassisted, but Doctor Joe or David or even Andy might have crossed it.

How often it happens that an obstacle that might be surmounted turns us back at the very door of success! Wearily they trailed back through the woods, and up and down until darkness finally forced them to return to camp unsuccessful and heavy hearted.

The younger lads were almost too weary to drag their feet behind them.