`Get up!' he say.

`Want sleep alway?
Get up, big fool! Trek!'" "What ?" I cried excitedly.
"Um?
Talk like Doppie, Boss Val talk.

Big fool get up an' inspan.
Boss Val get up on box an' keep call driver big black fool, like Doppie.
Joeboy walk 'long o' vorloper.

Tell 'im Joeboy 'tick assagai in um back if he talk, and drive right 'way." "Ha!" I said, with a heavy expiration of the breath.

"But do you understand what he means ?" "Oh yes, I understand," said Denham, laughing; "but where are the Doppies going to be all the while ?" "Lying somewhere about, of course, asleep," I said excitedly; "but there would be no sentries over the wagons; and, as he says, the black foreloper and driver would be sleeping underneath." "Oh, that's right enough," said Denham impatiently.