[The Young Trailers by Joseph A. Altsheler]@TWC D-Link bookThe Young Trailers CHAPTER IV 7/29
It is furnished most beautifully.
I do not know of another that has in it so good a larder. Its great specialty is game.
It has too a most wonderful and plenteous supply of pure fresh water and that being so I propose that we get a drink and go to bed." The two boys went down to the little brook that ran near, and drank heartily.
They then returned within the ring of fire. They were thoroughly tired and sleepy, and they quickly threw themselves down upon the soft warm earth, pillowing their heads on their arms, and the great Kaintuckee Inn bent over them a roof of soft, summer skies. But the wilderness never sleeps, and its people knew that night that a stranger breed was abroad among them.
The wind rose a little, and its song among the burned branches became by turns a music and a moan.
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