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the thin white bark of a sycamore, and finally chose two
which seemed to suit him. Then he knelt by the fire and
painfully wrote something upon each of these with his ‘red
keel”; one he rolled up and put in his jacket pocket, and the
other he put in Joe’s hat and removed it to a little distance
from the owner. And he also put into the hat certain school-
boy treasures of almost inestimable value — among them a
lump of chalk, an India-rubber ball, three fishhooks, and
one of that kind of marbles known as a ‘sure ‘nough crystal.’
Then he tiptoed his way cautiously among the trees till he
felt that he was out of hearing, and straightway broke into a
keen run in the direction of the sandbar.

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