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that way. I could not even find a dry piece of 

 tobacco wherewith to comfort myself I began to 

 feel very wretched indeed ; and it was truly a great 

 relief when I heard the shouts of the returning party. 

 They brought in the lost man pretty well exhausted, 

 for he had been out a long time exposed to the 

 weather, had walked a great distance, and had fallen 

 about terribly in the darkness. He had tried in 

 vain to make a fire, and was wandering about 

 without an idea of the direction in which the camp 

 lay. He was indeed in need of stimulant, and when, 

 in answer to an inquiring glance at the keg, I said 

 that there was half a pannikin full, his face beamed 

 into a cheerful smile. But, alas ! a catastrophe had 

 occurred. A gust of wind or a falling branch had 

 overthrown all my arrangements, and when I arose 

 to give him the pannikin, behold, it was bottom 

 upwards and dry ! [Jack trod in it, says the 

 Doctor in a pencil note.] If it be true that " the 

 effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth 

 much," I suppose that it must be equally true that 

 the effectual fervent swear of a despairing mortal 

 will penetrate far. If so, I know that a responsive 

 echo must have been awakened somewhere by the 

 vehemence of the monosyllable that greeted this 

 discovery.' ^ 



* So Lord Dunraven eloquently describes the voices of that night in 

 The Great Divide. 



