Toby was in a hard plight as it was; but without the old monkey
for a companion he would have thought his condition was a hundred
times worse, and would hardly have had the courage to go on as he
was going.
On and on he walked, until it seemed to him that he could really
go no farther, and yet he could see no signs which indicated the
end of the woods, and at last he sank upon the ground, too tired
to walk another step, saying to the monkey -- who was looking as if
he would like to know the reason of this pause, "It's no use, Mr.
Stubbs, I've got to sit down here an' rest awhile anyhow; besides,
I'm awfully hungry."
Then Toby commenced to eat his dinner, and to give the monkey his,
until the thought came to him that he neither had any water nor
did he know where to find it, and then, of course, he immediately
became so thirsty that it was impossible for him to eat any more.
"We can't stand this," moaned Toby to the monkey; "we've got
to have something to drink, or else we can't eat all these sweet
things, an' I'm so tired that I can't go any farther. Don't let's
eat dinner now, but let's stay here an' rest, an' then we can keep
on an' look for water."
Toby's resting spell was a long one, for as soon as he stretched
himself out on the ground he was asleep from actual exhaustion,
and did not awaken until the sun was just setting, and then he
saw that, hard as his troubles had been before, they were about to
become, or in fact had become, worse.
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