title: Nighthogs: A Pearls Before Swine Collection
author:  Stephan Pastis 
description: Stephan Pastis is an attorney turned cartoonist. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and the UCLA School of Law, he worked as a lawyer before trying his hand at cartooning. Pastis lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.
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  # Chapter 37
  
  Old habits woke Marco with the first hint of dawnhe'd been so exhausted
  otherwise that he'd have managed to sleep through to the afternoon. He'd spent
  a good part of the night with his teeth chattering hard enough to splinter,
  until exhaustion put him to sleep for another hour or so. He stuck his head
  out from under the hideout, still shivering, and peered around in the gray
  light. No fog this morning, though the sky was going to be overcast. He pulled
  his head back in, and checked his clothes where he'd put them under his bottom
  blanket. As he'd hoped, they were reasonably dry, water driven out by the heat
  of his body. He beat the worst of the dried mud out of them, and pulled them
  on, wrapped a blanket around himself, pulled his cotte on over it all, and
  crawled back out into the day.
  
  He hopped from the edge of his raft onto the edge of the isletwhich was an
  exposed and weathere