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." "I should tell them," the child replied, at once, "that I was taking food to the men from Lucca who were cutting down the _maquis_." "And if you came across some hungry hunter who insisted on dining at your expense, and took your provisions away from you ?" "Nobody would dare! I would say they are for my uncle!" "Well! he's not the sort of man to let himself be cheated of his dinner!.

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