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The Rulers of the Lakes

CHAPTER VII
19/29

Let them sleep on.

They will need tomorrow the sleep they get tonight.

Man lives by day in the sleep that he has at night, and we wish the eyes of them all to be clear and the arms of them all to be strong, when the hour of battle, which is not far away, comes to us." "You're right, Daganoweda, right in both things you say, right that they need all their strength, and right that we'll soon meet St.Luc, at the head of the French and Indians, because I'm as sure as I know that I'm standing here that he's now leading 'em.

Shall we finish out the night here, and then follow on their trail until we can bring 'em to battle on terms that suit us ?" "Yes, Black Rifle.

That is what the Great Bear and the Mountain Wolf would say too, and so I shall not awake them.


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