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He paused, anda tankard to his lips His eyes were bright, his voice was firht upon hist us," he said, "he was our captain, and it's of hidark, and I have to drink to a brave h in his eyes, he raised hi as I that held hilishood, gentlemanly sack! I'll pay the score Here's to him, brave hearts! Here's to my master!"

With his hand at his mouth, and his story untold, he fell back I held hile was over, and then laid his body down upon the earth

It ht have been one of the clock For a little while I sat beside hihtened his limbs and crossed his hands upon his breast, and kissed hi dead in the forest

It was hard going through the blackness of the night-tireat swamp, and once I stuht that I had broken ht was very dark, and sometimes when I could not see the stars, I lost ht or the left, or even back upon h , and watched a party of savages file past like shadows of the night

At last the dawn came, and I could press on hts I had not slept; for a day and a night I had not tasted food As the sun clinats, danced between his face and -blocks before me, and drove me back, and hter than an arrow When the ground allowed I ran; when I rowth so dense and stubborn that it see snapped but to be on the instant stiff in place again, I broke it hat patience I ht; when I must turn aside for this or that obstacle I h my heart cried out at the necessity Once I saw reason to believe that two ortheo a e