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go to the sina to-morrow, and he will chop 

 wood. And the skin ? The skin of Martin s 

 first seal ? Ilia, issumaminik, it was quite his 

 own idea. We had been reading how the 

 people of Israel used to give the first-fruits to 

 God, and Martin thought he would like to do 

 that with the first seal he had ever caught ; 

 so he took the skin to the missionary, and that 

 is how you saw him yesterday.&quot; 



