about as actively as if you had had nothing to do for a week."

"I have the advantage of riding so much lighter than you do,"
Hector said; "weight tells both on horse and rider, and when the
horse is tired his pace soon adds to the weariness of his rider.
If we had had to do this work when we first left Paris, I have
no doubt that I should have felt it, but the journey here has been
a fine preparation. Another thing is, that every morning I take
a dip in the first mountain stream I come to, and that does one
almost as much good as a night's sleep."

De Lisle shivered. "It may do good, Campbell, but I would not jump
into one of these icy streams for anything. It makes one shudder
to think of it."

"I always had a swim in the Seine every morning when it was not
closed by ice," Hector said. "I was told that there was nothing
braced one up and made one so hardy as that; and I certainly found
that even in the coldest weather I never felt the need of a cloak."

"Well, I don't deny that it may be a good custom, and if all
Scotchmen do it, it may account for their hardiness; but I like
comfort when I can get it."

"But it is not comfort to be always in the saddle, and to feel so
sleepy that you fancy that at any moment you may fall off. Even
if a dip in snow water is, to those unaccustomed to it, somewhat
sharp, it is better than having to struggle against sleep for
hours."