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&quot; It was a Dore, Your Majesty,&quot; pleaded 

 Sakwasu, &quot;and I caught him first.&quot; 



&quot; Just as I dove for him,&quot; declared Otter, 

 &quot; Sakwasu followed after and tried to take him 

 from me a great big Fish it was. I ve been 

 fishing for four years, but this was the biggest 

 Dore I ever saw why, he was the length of 

 Pisew.&quot; 



&quot; A Fisherman s lie,&quot; quoth the Red Widow. 



&quot; Who got the Dore ? That s the main ques 

 tion,&quot; demanded Carcajou. 



&quot; He escaped,&quot; replied Nekik, sorrowfully ; 

 &quot;and we have come to the Meeting without 

 any breakfast.&quot; 



&quot;Bah! Bah! Bah!&quot; laughed Blue Wolf; 

 &quot; that s rich ! Hey, Muskwa, you heard the 

 end of the story isn t it good?&quot; 



&quot; I, too, have had no breakfast,&quot; declared 

 Muskwa, &quot;so I don t see the point it s not 

 a bit funny. Seven hard-baked Ant Hills have 

 I torn up in the grass-flat down by the river, and 

 not a single dweller in one of them. My arms 

 ache, for the clay was hard ; and the dust has 

 choked up rny lungs. Wuf-f-f ! I could hardly 

 get my breath coming up the hill, and I have more 

 mortar in my lungs than Ants in my stomach.&quot; 



&quot;Are there no Berries to be had, then, 

 Muskwa ? &quot; asked Wapistan. 



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