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keenly, then rested his hands on the 
end of his long gun barrel, and put 
his chin on his hands. 
" Drat it all ! Never tetched 'im 
again. That paowder o' mine hain't 
wuth a cent. You wait till snow 
blows," — addressing the silent woods 
at large, — "then I'll get me some 
paowder as is paowder, and foller the 
critter, and 1 '11 show ye " — 
Old Wally said never a word, but 
all this was in his face and attitude 
as he leaned moodily on his long 
gun. And I watched him, chuckling, 
from my hiding among the rocks, 
till with curious instinct he vanished 
down the ridge behind the very 
thicket where I had seen the doe 
