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I worked on a drama and lost awareness of my hardships and the passing time.

After that song I remembered another:

Please say that you agree.
He wants to marry me.
If you say yea or you say nay,
We're going to marry anyway.
Please say that you agree.

I dramatised that one in my imagination as well, with a young boy, a young girl, and a nasty old aunt. I made up a silly story and wrote dialogue for them as well.

I was tired and drenched to the bone. I started looking for a campsite but saw no crags, boulders, or fallen trees to huddle under. Finally I selected a large tree whose roots protruded from the ground in every direction at irregular intervals. I chose a space between two roots that was just as wide as my body, cleared away the wet leaves on the ground, put my pack down, and went off with my walking stick to gather bedding.

There were bushes, trees, and plants of every kind. The foliage was astounding in its variety and beauty. I gathered up large leaves, similar to banana leaves, and spread them out between the sheltering tree roots. I also found a few palms. Without a machete the fronds were hard to remove. I cracked them close to the stump and