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ocr>   'cause I been told these critters nearly alters have
fix>   'cause I been told these critters nearly allers have
a mate somewhere near by. An' I'm meanin' to
hang on to this bully pole, since we got to come
back this way more'n a few times, seems like."

Nothing else cropped up to disturb their peace
of mind and in due time the pair arrived at the
secluded lagoon where they had left their aircraft
so artfully concealed. Apparently nothing
had happened in this quarter since they started
forth on their mission, and yet what strange
things had they not seen inside those few hours.

"Seems like supper'd come in fair good jest
new," Perk remarked after they had
climbed carefully aboard and were once more
comfortably seated in their accustomed places,
"but sorry to say it's bound to be only a 'pology
for real grub--dry fare and never even a drop o'
water to wash it down with." And he emitted a
disgusted grunt, as if to display a proper amount
of displeasure over the doleful fact.

"I noticed a well of some sort just back of that
shack," remarked Jack as if he too, shared in
this moan over the absence of drinking water.
"When we go back we'll try and snatch a drink
apiece so as to take the rusty feeling out of our
throats. Until then we'll have to put up with it,
partner."

Necessity knows no law and so Perk was compelled
to grin and bear it. Just the same, as they

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