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The Masters of the Peaks

CHAPTER XIII
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It might have been a pigeon or some other bird." "That, O, Dagaeoga, would be the easiest of all, even for you, if you could only use your eyes, as I bid you.

Almost at your feet lies a slender bone that cannot be anything but the backbone of a squirrel.

Beyond it are two other bones, which came from the same body.

We know as certainly that it was a squirrel as we know that the Great Bear ate first a wild goose, and then a wild duck.

But it is a good camp that those two great men made, and, as the night is coming, we will occupy it." They relighted the abandoned fire, warmed their food and ate, and Robert was once more devoutly glad that he had kept the heavy buffalo robe.


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