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Updated: May 3, 2025

So the eldest brother, meaning to turn Alner's weakness to account, offered a prize of a twenty-five-cent necktie of the winner's own choice to the one who did his chores best for a month. For the first week Alner and Yan kept even, then Alner wearied, in spite of the dazzling prize. The pace was too hot.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned