"We are near enough to that house to be far enough from it if there's any reason to be far," said Mac Cann, "so this is what I say, let us stop where we are for the night and in the morning we'll go on from here."
"Very well," said Mary, "let us stop here."
Her father drew the ass to the side of the road and there halted it.
"We'll go to bed now," he shouted to the company, and they all agreed to that.
"I'm going to unyoke the beast," said Mary with a steady eye on her father.
He replied heartily.
"Why wouldn't you do that? Let him out to get something to eat like the rest of us."
"There isn't any water," he complained a minute later. "What will that animal do? and what will we do ourselves?"
"I have two big bottles of water in the cart," said Mary.
"And I have a little bottle in my pocket," said he, "so we're all right."