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carefully at our guns, and we began to mistrust every 
tree around us, for some one might be hiding behind 
them, and getting ready to send a bearded spear through 
us. 
We did not like at all the idea of people being in our 
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hunting-ground, but we liked still less the idea that these 
people might be our enemies. 
My pair of revolvers were in good order, and I do not 
know why, but I always felt very strong and reckless 
when I had them with the belt holding them round 
