midnight
`` Um ! But this is jolly ! '' cried Nort . The horses were picketed out and after the midnight supper the wayfarers rolled themselves in their blankets and prepared to pass what remained of the night in the glow of the campfire , and beneath the fitful light of the cloud-obscured moon . Dick was dreaming that he was at a football game , and that his brother Nort had hold of him and was trying to pull him through the line of opposing players to make a touchdown . Then the dream seemed to become confused with reality , and Dick felt some one tugging at the blanket in which he had rolled himself so snugly . Half awake and half asleep Dick 's brain struggled to clear itself and get the right impression of what really was going on .