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wonted prayers and looking forward dismally 

 to his own turn to cross. However, the stone 

 shower was soon over, and in spite of the 

 difficulties of the path so was Platon. 



Just before dusk a jodel from, the other 

 side called our attention to a clearing, in the 

 midst of which, on a platform erected to shoot 

 bears from at night, stood our old friend 

 Keesermann. Of course he wanted us to come 

 to him, but as there was said to be another 

 maize patch within a mile of where we were, 

 and as it was five miles round by the bridge 

 to Keesermann's, we decided to stay at the 

 nearer shelter and let Keesermann, who had 

 not done so much walking as we had that 

 day, come to us. 



The maize field at which we stayed was 

 the least pretentious of any of the farms we 

 passed in the Ingour valley. High up 

 amongst the forest trees there happened 

 to be a tableland of twenty acres or so. 



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