At times you reason well.

Finding that we are as patient as they are they will make a movement in an hour or two, though I think we are not likely to see it." "An hour or two?
Then I think I'd better make myself comfortable again." He settled his body against the brown turf which was soft and soothing, and, in spite of himself, the wish for sleep returned.

It was so quiet that one was really invited to go away to slumberland, and then he had eaten much at the big supper.

After a long time, he was sinking into a doze when he was dragged back abruptly from it by a report almost at his ear that sounded like the roar of a cannon.

He sat up convulsively, and saw Tayoga holding in his hand a smoking pistol.
"Did you hit anything ?" he asked.
"I saw a stir in the bushes over there," replied the Onondaga, "and fired into them.