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As one round that was but a feshots away The young men bounded ahead to make preparation; but the approved warriors and the old men went more sedately, and with them walked Diccon and I, as steady of step as they The woh a few i the oal One of these wo over her shoulder as she ran Others carried pieces of bark heaped with the slivers of pine of which every am has store

The sun was yet to rise e reached a hollow a houses in which they keep the is These temples faced the crimson east, and the mist was yet about thee devices, the stuffed skins of snakes knotted about their heads, in their hands great rattles which they shook veheh the doors and down the bank totheir bodies, throwing up their ared his shoulders, and with a grunt of contempt sat down upon a fallen tree to watch the enemy's manoeuvres

The place was a natural amphitheatre, well fitted for a spectacle Those Indians who could not crowd into the narrow level spread theround, and looked doith fierce laughter upon the driving of the stakes which the young ht The women and children scattered into the woods beyond the cleft between the hills, and returned bearing great ar to the exultation of the playgoers Taunting laughter, cries of savage triu of two great dru to stupor And above the holloas the angry reddening of the heavens, and the whiteup like s Beneath it there were growing tufts of a pale blue, slender-steht how blue they would look against the whiteness of her hand; then dropped them in a sudden shas which were not of earth I did not speak to Diccon, nor he to me There seemed no need of speech In the pandemonium to which the world had narrowed, the one fa was that he and I were to die together