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a pound of cheese, fully, and pie enough for one delicious ," and when she caot de mouton,

she cried, "What a sweet aunt she is! But when can we eat this whole

leg of ry, and so was her chief; and Annette herself

was like a bear After all, very little would be left for the prairie

dog

"Does the chief think that Captain Stephens was in danger of capture

by those Indians?" Annette ventured to ask This is the question that

had been upon her lips since the arrival of the chief, but she could

not suh to ask it sooner

"When last seen, made slowly through the swampy bottom of the ravine; and many

braves, with arms in their hands, were in close pursuit But le

capitaine round and escaped; he easily

could have done so"

There was not

heart; but as she lay down in her blanket, with Julie at her side,

there cah the stillness, fro of the swan