Sie fingen an, über ihr Mißgeschick zu jammern; aber plötzlich entdeckten sie, daß das Feuer sich an dem Baum, unter dem es gebrannt hatte, so weit hinauf fortgepflanzt hatte, daß eine Handbreit oder so erhalten geblieben war und noch schwach glimmte.
They were eloquent in their distress; but they presently discovered that the fire had eaten so far up under the great log it had been built against (where it curved upward and separated itself from the ground), that a handbreadth or so of it had escaped wetting; so they patiently wrought until, with shreds and bark gathered from the under sides of sheltered logs, they coaxed the fire to burn again.