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Rh felt very cold, and, when they tried to rise up, very stiff and cramped.

"Oh, how queer my arms and legs do feel!" cried Willie, twisting and turning himself about.

"I fancy we ought n't to have gone to sleep out-of-doors," answered Roy. "We have caught cold, and that's a nuisance for you, old man, because your colds always last such a long time. Let's eat the short-cakes now; they 'll be all the breakfast we will get, most likely."

Eppie, (kind, unconscious Eppie) had brought two cakes up to the boys the evening before, in consideration of their abbreviated dinner. The cakes tasted particularly good as the hungry children ate them out under the sky; and each hid from the other a coward-longing to be in the warm Manse kitchen, with more shortcakes to come: such weakness was not to be confessed. Roy brushed the crumbs from his mouth and got on his feet.