And so he sat and waited and listened, and his eye-lids began to grow heavy and his head began to nod, and directly little Bob was fast asleep in the dark corner behind the barrels.
By ten o'clock the children were all put to bed, and soon after the old folks went up-stairs, leaving only Tom Green, Alice, and some of the young men and women down in the big sitting-room.
Bob's mother went up into the room where several of the children were sleeping, and after looking around, she said to the old colored nurse:
"Hannah, what have you done with Bob?"
"I didn't put him to bed, mum. I spect Miss Alice has took him to her bed. She knowed how crowded the chil'un all was, up here."
"But Alice has not gone to bed," said Bob's mother.
"Don't spect she has, mum," said Hannah. "But I reckon she put him in her bed till she come."