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"Ef ye want to kno to give the sth, quietly, "I'll larn ye how"
The girl looked up at him
"Well, I don't know much about it"
"This way: Hit takes two to do hit best You catch holt two corners o'
the sha Hist it on a stick in the middle Draw it down all over
the fire Let her sireen stuff Now! Lift her clean
off, sideways, so's not ter break the sirl keenly under his bushy gray brows
"That's the Injun signal fer 'Enenal, say to white folks, 'Friend in the country,' you ht bring up a
friend Sech a signal can be seed a long ways"
Molly flushed to the eyes
"What do you mean?"
"Nothin' at all, any more'n you do"
Jackson rose and left her