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`` Doubt if he sleeps long , '' says Potts a little before two ; `` that 's what he 's been doing all morning . '' `` We have n't had any fresh meat for a week , '' returns the Colonel significantly . `` Why do n't you and O'Flynn go down to meet the Boy , and come round by the woods ? There 'll be full moon up by four o'clock ; you might get a brace of grouse or a rabbit or two . '' O'Flynn was not very keen about it ; but the Jesuit 's visit had stirred him up , and he offered less opposition to the unusual call to activity than the Colonel expected . When at last he was left alone with the sleeping man , the Kentuckian put on a couple more logs , and sat down to wait . At three he got up , swung the crane round so that the darting tongues of flame could lick the hot-water pot , and then he measured out some coffee .