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Wakulla

CHAPTER X
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Ever since then I have been living in the woods around here, hunting and fishing.

When the weather was bad I slept in the kitchen of this house, and when you folks moved in, it seemed almost as if you were taking possession of what belonged to me.
The first night you were here I crept into the kitchen and stole a loaf of bread and a duck." "There!" interrupted Mark, "now I know where I saw you before.

It was you who looked into the window and frightened me that first night, wasn't it ?" "Yes," said Frank; "and I meant to scare you worse than that, and should have if the alligator hadn't caught me.

I saw you and your father go down the river that morning, and heard him say he was going to Tallahassee, and I waited then for you to come back alone.

I drew out the shot from one barrel of my gun, and was going to fire a charge of powder at you when you got close to the point.


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