He gave John's hand a mighty grasp and took his gripsack from him.

Churchill crawled in on the wagon-bed and slept, the gripsack still on his back.

"Oh, thanks, old man; it was good of you to bring it out," Bondell said when he received the gripsack.

Halfway up, he recollected Bondell's gripsack.

It was a very painful trot, but he clenched his teeth and kept on, forgetting his pain most of the time in the fervent heat with which he regarded the gripsack.

By the time Long Lake was reached, however, he had recovered from his sleepiness; and at Deep Lake he resigned the gripsack to Burns.