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He raised his arirl's cottage, and cried like a triumphant fiend

"Bonsoir Adieu, ht To-morrow I shall bathe my face in the coils of your silken

hair" And he ay

When Jean rode away fro

"Methinks," he said aloud after a long pause, "that we had better

kill two birds with one stone to-morrow If the master take the

mistress, I do not see why the man should not have the maid" And as

the fellow reached this conclusion his little weasel eyes brightened

as if each were the point of a gloorm; and he smote the flank of

his horse with his heavy heel "You one day turned up your sweet,

haughty nose, Julie, when I told you how beautiful you were, and that

I would like to kiss the dew off your red lips Well, Julie, my plan

for the morrow is to denounce you to Tall Elk as a spy; and after I

have got possession of you, my pretty one, with a brave at one side

of your pony, and myself at the other, we shall march to the

cottonhere the door of s to hi over the fair prospects