"Yes, I have slept pretty well, but in spite of the two blankets under us it was awfully hard, and I feel stiff all over now."
"How shall we divide the things, Dinah?"
"Well, sah, do you tink you can take de head of de barrow? Dat pretty heaby weight."
"Oh, nonsense!" Nat said. "Madame Duchesne is a light weight, and if I could get her comfortably on my back I could carry her any distance."
"Dat bery well before starting, Marse Glober, you tell anoder story before we gone very far."
"Well, at any rate, I can carry a good deal more than one end of the barrow."
"Well, sah, we put all de blankets on de barrow before we put madame on it, and put de bundle of clothes under her head. Den by her feet we put de basket and oder tings. Dat divide de weight pretty fair."
"But what am I to carry, nurse, may I ask?"
"You just carry yourself, dearie; dat quite enough for you. It am a good long way we hab to go, and some part of it am bery rough. You do bery well if you walk dat distance."
"That is right, Myra," Nat agreed. "We don't want to have to carry both you and your mother, and though you have walked a good deal more than most of the girls of your own class you have never done anything like this."