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The Young Trailers

CHAPTER XI
19/32

A delicious sense of peace and satisfaction crept over him.

All the voices of the night seemed familiar and good.

A lizard slipped through the grass and the eye and ear of Henry alone noticed it; neither the guide nor the shiftless one had seen or heard its passage.

He measured the disk of the heavens with his glance and foretold unerringly whether it would be clear or cloudy on the morrow, and when something rustled in the woods, he knew, without looking, that it was a hare frightened by the blaze fleeing from its covert.

A tiny brook trickled at the far edge of the fire's rim, and he could tell by the color of the waters through what kind of soil it had come.
Paul sat down near him, and began to talk of home.


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