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**It's right smart like a story written in pic- 

 tures, ' ' he said ; ' ' when did yo ' take this last one ? ' ' 



** Yesterday," said Shan. 



**An' the rest o' the little shavers, do yo' reckon 

 their eyes '11 be open to-day?" 



'*! don't know," said Shan; 'T'm going to see 

 this afternoon." 



There was a pause, a very definite pause, and 

 then to the boy's utter amazement the old man 

 said, 



"I ain't never seen little birds, not little like 

 them. Makes yo' think of — " he broke off and 

 was silent. **Do yo' reckon," he asked a minute 

 later, almost diffidently, ' ' that I could see 'em from 

 that blind 0' yours?" 



And Shan knew that Bull Adam was won. 



