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The Masters of the Peaks

CHAPTER X
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As soon as Dagaeoga is strong enough.

Now lie still, while I scout through the forest.

If no enemy is near I will heat the tea, and then you must drink, and drink deep." He made a wide circuit, and, coming back, lighted a little fire on which he warmed the tea in the pot that he had taken from the village on an earlier night.

Then, under the insistence of Tayoga, Robert drank a quantity that amounted to three cups, and soon fell into a deep sleep, from which he awoke the next day with an appetite so sharp that he felt able to bite a big piece out of a tree.
"I think I'll go hunt a buffalo, kill him and eat him whole," he said in a large, round voice.
"If so Dagaeoga will have to roam far," said Tayoga sedately.

"The buffalo is not found east of the Alleghanies, as you well know." "Of course I know it, but what are time and distance to a Samson like me?
I say I will go forth and slay a buffalo, unless I am fed at once and in enormous quantities." "Would a haunch of venison and a gallon of samp help Dagaeoga a little ?" "Yes, a little, they'd serve as appetizers for something real and substantial to come." "Then if you feel so strong and are charged so full of ambition you can help cook breakfast.


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