Mark woke up about two hours after sunrise. He crawled sleepily out of his tent, and started to gather wood for a fire. After he had the wood burning and a can of chili cooking, he woke up John. John quickly slipped out of his tent, and huddled next to the fire. Once all the chili had been eaten and the fire was starting to go out, the boys packed up their tents and prepared to start their hike.
They hiked for seven hours across the mountains. They found a small cave near the area that their parent’s plane was supposed to be in. After they set up camp and ate a dinner of refried beans, they started to talk about their plans for searching the area.
“I think that we should try to build some sort of machine to help us look,” John suggested. “We should build a giant pair of wings, so we can fly!”
Mark shook his head. “We can’t make wings for ourselves! It would never work. Besides, even if it did work, we still wouldn’t know where to look.” Mark thought for a moment, then added, “I do like your idea about building something though. What do you think we could build?”
“I don’t know,” John quickly responded. “But we should build something that could carry us in the trees, at least. Maybe we could build a machine to bring Tarzan to us! He could look for us!”
“Or we could build something to help us climb trees better, and glide from tree to tree,” Mark put in. “I know! We can build gliders! All we have to do is climb a tree, and then glide to where we want to go!”
“Okay, I can settle for gliding. But I still want to get Tarzan to help us!” John said. “Now I’m going to bed. Thinking of all of those brilliant ideas made me sleepy. Good night!” With that, John clambered into his tent and fell asleep almost immediately.
Mark slowly imitated John, and crept into his own tent. He stayed awake however, thinking of ways to build gliders. He finally gave up after his third idea, which was to find a big piece of bark and strap it across his back. He realized that he was too tired to think clearly, and drifted into dreams of flying bark and Tarzan with wings.
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