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The Tiger of Mysore

CHAPTER 5: War Declared
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It won't take you a minute to put on.

I will come for you at the first gleam of daylight." Dick returned to the cottage he occupied with his uncle, and told him what preparations they had made for their journey; and they sat talking over the details for another hour.

The Rajah's last words, as they lay down for the night, were: "Don't forget to take a blanket, each.

You will want it for sleeping in the open, which you will probably have to do several times, although you may occasionally be able to find shelter in a village." By the time the sun rose, the next morning, they were well upon their way.

They had a good deal of toilsome climbing, but by nightfall had surmounted the most difficult portions of the ascent, and encamped, when it became dark, in a small wood.


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