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Jerry of the Islands

CHAPTER XVI
18/27

In his free hand he carried a small pig by its tied legs.
"They say the white master's dog is to be eaten," he said in the Somo speech.

"Where is the white master's dog?
Show him to me." Agno, who had just arrived, stood beside him as he bent over Jerry and examined him with his fingers.

Nor did Jerry offer to snarl or bite, although the blind man's hands came within reach of his teeth more than once.

For Jerry sensed no enmity in the fingers that passed so softly over him.

Next, Nalasu felt over the pig, and several times, as if calculating, alternated between Jerry and the pig.
Nalasu stood up and voiced judgment: "The pig is as small as the dog.


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