.

The cold sweat of fear stood out on his brow, and he hardly dared to
breathe, much more to speak, lest the sound of his voice should betray
his whereabouts, and thus bring his enemies down upon him. The minutes
seemed like hours, and the hours like days, as he lay there, listening
fearfully to every one of the night-sounds of the forest; and it seemed
to him that he had been there very many hours when at last he fell
asleep, and was thus freed from his fears.

Bright and early on the following morning Toby was awake, and as he came
to a realizing sense of all the dangers and trouble that surrounded him
he was disposed to give way again to his sorrow; but he said resolutely
to himself, "It might be a good deal worse than it is, an' Mr. Stubbs
an' I can get along one day without anything to eat; an' perhaps by
night we shall be out of the woods, an' then what we get will taste good
to us."

He began his walk--which possibly might not end that day--manfully, and
his courage was rewarded by soon reaching a number of bushes that were
literally loaded down with blackberries. From these he made a hearty
meal, and the old monkey fairly revelled in them, for he ate all he
possibly could, and then stowed away enough in his cheeks to make a
good-sized luncheon when he should be hungry again.

Refreshed very much by his breakfast of fruit, Toby again started on his
journey with renewed vigor, and the world began to look very bright to
him. He had not thought that he might find berries when the thoughts of
starvation came into his mind, and now that his hunger was satisfied he
began to believe that he might possibly be able to live, perhaps for
weeks, in the woods solely upon what he might find growing there.

Shortly after he had had breakfast he came upon a brook, which he
thought was the same upon whose banks he had encamped the first night he
spent in the woods, and, pulling off his clothes, he waded into the
deepest part, and had a most refreshing bath, although the water was
rather cold.

Not having any towels with which to dry himself, he was obliged to sit
in the sun until the moisture had been dried from his skin and he could
put his clothes on once more. Then he started out on his walk again,
feeling that sooner or later he would come out all right.

All this time he had been travelling without any guide to tell him
whether he was going straight ahead or around in a circle, and he now
concluded to follow the cou