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The Scouts of the Valley

CHAPTER II
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Give it to me, and after I've eaten it I'll tell you all that I've been doing, and all that's been done to me." Long Jim handed him the slice.

Henry took a comfortable seat in the circle before the coals, and ate with all the appetite of a powerful human creature whose food had been more than scanty for at least two days.
"Take another piece," said Long Jim, observing him with approval.

"Take two pieces, take three, take the whole deer.

I always like to see a hungry man eat.

It gives him sech satisfaction that I git a kind uv taste uv it myself." Henry did not offer a word 'of explanation until his breakfast was over.
Then lie leaned back, sighing twice with deep content, and said: "Boys, I've got a lot to tell." Shif'less Sol moved into an easier position on the leaves.
"I guess it has somethin' to do with them scratches on your leggins." "It has," continued Henry with emphasis, "and I want to say to you boys that I've seen Timmendiquas, the great White Lightning of the Wyandots." "Timmendiquas!" exclaimed the others together.
"No less a man than he," resumed Henry.


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