- After they spend the day detouring, Crispin and Bear break for supper and sleep.
- Bear teaches Crispin how to snare birds, which seems a bit wrong since the birds did warn them about trouble earlier, after all.
- Later, Bear insists on looking at the cross of lead. He holds it to the fire to try to read the writing, but says the light is too weak.
- Crispin did not fall off the turnip truck yesterday, though, and is sure Bear just doesn't want to tell him what the cross says.