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"We thought that ere going with them every day, not to work but to

sit in the nearby shade, to encourage theo for a month But they had to carry us all

the way - or nearly carry us Think of that - supporting a full-groorow in them that

ere burdens I watched it develop Understand me, a beautiful

burden, a beloved burden, but still a burden, a burden that it would be

good to slip off the back for the hours of the working day I could not

blame them For ere burdens Then, under one pretext or another,

they began to suggest to us not to go daily to the New Caht fall; insects would sting us; the sudden

shoere too violent Finally, that if we did not watch the New Calorious surprise to us when it was finished

"At first, you were all touched and delighted with their gallantry - but

I - I knehat it e, absorption, but I could

not It grew and grew And now you see what has happened It has been

months since one of us has been to the New Camp and all of you, except