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very soon learns to be silent. In consequence of this 

 treatment, such a sound as the crying of a baby is 

 never heard in a native encampment, even though 

 there may be plenty of babies in it, lying on the 

 ground, or hung up to branches to be out of the 

 way. 



Perhaps Mr. Eansom, who knows the Indians 

 well, took his idea from this custom. 



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