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For days I had been on the trail, or, rather, off it, for there were no trails in the high country through which I was traveling, excepting those made by game. I was hungry. The region lacked charm. It is difficult for a boy to appreciate scenery on a two-day-old empty stomach, which he has been urging up mountains and joggling down valleys.
"What?" asked Bob. "Oh, they have the finest little black-haired two-day-old girl you ever saw," said his aunt. "You don't mean it," said Bob. "Tony's so excited," said his uncle, "that he forgets everything you ask him to do." "Well, this is certainly fine news," said Bob. "I don't suppose I dare go down and see her." "I think I'd wait a day or two if I were you, Bob, before going down."
He seemed brighter, too; but lack-a-day, 'twere not ten months afore I had to dig a grave for her, and she left him a two-day-old babe to bring up and little Miss Violet were the joy of his heart she were a purty, bright little maid, and were out on her little pony every day wi' her father. She just doated on him, and he were as lovin' as a woman wi' her.
Sitting-there under a tent fly, all sun blistered and skeeter stung, all tired out but most content, he picks up a two-day-old copy of the Daily Evening News which the darky boatman has just brought over to camp from the post office at Walnut Log, and he opens it at the department headed Local Laconics, and halfway down the first column his eye falls upon a paragraph at sight of which he gives so deep a snort that Doctor Lake swings about from where he is shaving before a hand mirror hung on a tree limb and wants to know whether the judge has happened upon disagreeable tidings.
Captain Moggs had snatched away Gail's communicator. Raging, Soames took Fran and left that spot which was undoubtedly pin-pointed by now. As they sped away he tried to consider the meaning of the two words and the numeral which was completely unbelievable at first thought. Shortly after sunrise he bought a two-day-old newspaper. It was the latest he could find for sale.
Now selecting a two-day-old trail as the best for us to follow, he decided to camp for the night, and we spent the interval between supper and bedtime discussing not only the hunting of moose, but also their range and habits. The extreme range of a moose covers from five to fifteen miles.
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